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Parties Involved:
Merle Gene Allison
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

FILED 

United States Court of Appeal$ 

Tenth Circuit 

AUG 8 1991 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellee, ) 

) No. 91-1162 

v. ) (D. Colorado) 

) (D.C. No. 91-F-327) 

MERLE GENE ALLISON, ) 

) 

Defendant-Appellant. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before ANDERSON, TACHA, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The cause is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

Following his conviction, on a plea of guilty, and sentence 

of 44 months imprisonment for bank robbery, the petitioner, Merle 

Gene Allison, filed a motion under 28 u.s.c. S 2255 to vacate, set 

aside, or correct his sentence. In his petition, Allison asserted 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppal. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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that his criminal history category should have been category II 

rather than category III. Specifically, he stated in his petition 

that: "I believe that my criminal history computation was figured 

wrong because on a concurrent sentence, the shorter of the two 

sentences should not be counted. This would lower my point total 

which lower my guidelines to which I was sentenced, to the next 

lower level." The sentence to which Allison referred was one 

imposed on March 12, 1973, later revoked and a new sentence 

imposed which was to run concurrently with a longer sentence 

imposed on an unrelated charge. In essence, Allison asserted that 

these prior sentences on unrelated cases should be counted as one, 

citing his interpretation of u.s.s.G. § 4Al.2(a)(2). Alternatively, Allison asserted that the March 12, 1973, sentence should 

not be counted as it was beyond 15 years, that it was not 

incarceration as defined in u.s.s.G. § 4Al.l(a), or that it was 

revoked on April 25, 1975, and a new sentence was imposed to run 

concurrently with an unrelated sentence. 

In his brief on behalf of the United States, the United 

States Attorney carefully analyzed the application of the various 

subsections of U.S.S.G. SS 4Al.1 and 4Al.2 to petitioner's case 

citing, among other authorities, United States v. Jones, 898 F.2d 

1461 (10th Cir.), cert. denied, 111 s.ct. 111 (1990). 

In his reply brief, Allison concedes that Jones is adverse to 

his position, and controls the disposition of this case. We 

agree. He does not contest the other arguments made by the United 

States Attorney. 

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Accordingly, the sentence imposed by the district court, as 

later modified, and the order of the district court denying 

Allison's petition, are AFFIRMED. 

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ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Stephen H. Anderson 

Circuit Judge 

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