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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES of America, v. Elijah Shaheed KEMP, Appellant.
    No. 05-1224.
    United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
    Submitted Under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) March 9, 2006.
    March 14, 2006.
    
      William A. Behe, Office of United States Attorney, Harrisburg, PA, for United States of America.
    Richard F. Maffett, Jr., Socha & Maf-fett, Harrisburg, PA, for Appellant.
    Before: AMBRO, and BECKER, Circuit Judges and STAGG, District Judge.
    
    
      
       The Honorable Tom Stagg, United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, sitting by designation.
    
   OPINION

BECKER, Circuit Judge.

Pursuant to a plea agreement, appellant Elijah Shaheed Kemp entered a plea of guilty to felony charges involving the distribution of narcotics. He was sentenced to 92 months imprisonment.

Appellant challenges his sentence under United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005). In United States v. Davis, 407 F.3d 162 (3d Cir.2005) (en banc), an opinion relating to the denial of a government petition for rehearing en banc concerning consideration of a Booker claim on plain error review, this Court stated that except in limited circumstances we will presume prejudice and direct a remand for re-sentencing where the district court imposed a sentence in the belief that the applicable Sentencing Guidelines were mandatory. That was the situation here, and we perceive no circumstance in this case which warrants a different result from that found in Davis.

We will therefore vacate the judgment and remand for re-sentencing.