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Parties Involved:
Raymond Lewis Perry
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 19-7620

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

RAYMOND LEWIS PERRY,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at 

Norfolk. Robert G. Doumar, Senior District Judge. (2:11-cr-00042-RGD-FBS-1; 2:16-

cv-00302-RGD)

Submitted: April 27, 2020 Decided: May 6, 2020

Before FLOYD and QUATTLEBAUM, Circuit Judges, and SHEDD, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed in part, vacated and remanded in part by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Raymond Lewis Perry, Appellant Pro Se.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Raymond Lewis Perry appeals the district court’s order and judgment granting in 

part Perry’s 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2018) motion and vacating Perry’s conviction and term of 

imprisonment for Count 2, using, carrying, and possessing a firearm during and in relation 

to a crime of violence, and aiding and abetting such conduct, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 

§§ 924(c)(1)(A)(i), 2 (2018), and correcting Perry’s term of imprisonment for Count 4, 

using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence and 

aiding and abetting such conduct, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 924(c)(1)(A)(ii), 2 (2018). 

We affirm in part and vacate and remand in part. 

Perry contends that he was entitled to a plenary resentencing and that his convictions 

for Counts 4, 6, and 8 are invalid because the underlying Hobbs Act robbery offenses are 

not crimes of violence. A district court “has broad discretion in crafting relief on a § 2255

claim.” United States v. Chaney, 911 F.3d 222, 225 (4th Cir. 2018). Although the court is 

authorized to conduct a resentencing in awarding relief pursuant to § 2255, it is not required 

to do so. United States v. Hadden, 475 F.3d 652, 668 (4th Cir. 2007). As this court 

observed, a successful § 2255 proceeding must result in “the vacatur of the prisoner’s 

unlawful sentence . . . and one of the following: (1) the prisoner’s release, (2) the grant of 

a future new trial to the prisoner, (3) or a new sentence, be it imposed by (a) a resentencing 

or (b) a corrected sentence.” Id. at 661; see also 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b). “[T]he goal of 

§ 2255 review is to place the defendant in exactly the same position he would have been 

had there been no error in the first instance.” Hadden 475 F.3d at 665 (internal quotation 

marks omitted). 

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We conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Perry’s 

request for a plenary resentencing. The district court appropriately vacated the term of 

imprisonment ordered for Count 2 and reduced Perry’s term of imprisonment for Count 4. 

Perry was not entitled to resentencing on the remaining firearm convictions, Counts 6 and 

8. Furthermore, the court properly found that Perry’s convictions for Counts 4, 6, and 8, 

remained valid. See United States v. Mathis, 932 F.3d 242, 265-66 (4th Cir. 2019) (holding 

that Hobbs Act robbery constitutes a crime of violence under § 924(c)’s force clause). Yet, 

in vacating the sentence for Count 2, the district court should have also vacated the $100 

special assessment and the 5-year term of supervised release ordered for that conviction. 

Accordingly, we affirm in part the district court’s order and judgment correcting 

Perry’s term of imprisonment, but vacate that portion of the court’s judgment ordering the 

$100 special assessment and 5-year term of supervised release for Count 2, and remand for 

the limited purpose of correcting Perry’s total special assessment, and returning the $100 

assessment for Count 2 if appropriate. We dispense with oral argument because the facts 

and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and 

argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED IN PART,

VACATED AND REMANDED IN PART

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