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Parties Involved:
Juan Morales-Uribe
Appellant
United States
Appellee

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 07-3080

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United States of America,

Appellee,

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Juan Morales-Uribe,

Appellant.

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Appeal from the United States

District Court for the 

Southern District of Iowa.

[UNPUBLISHED]

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 Submitted: March 11, 2008 

 Filed: March 19, 2008

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Before RILEY, GRUENDER and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges. 

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PER CURIAM.

Juan Morales-Uribe appeals his sentence of 90 months’ imprisonment that the

district court imposed at resentencing. After the district court initially sentenced

Morales-Uribe to 60 months’ imprisonment, we vacated his sentence and remanded

for resentencing. United States v. Morales-Uribe, 470 F.3d 1282 (8th Cir. 2006). We

vacated the sentence because some of the factors that the district court relied upon in

sentencing Morales-Uribe to 60 months’ imprisonment, while appropriate, were not

sufficient to support the substantial, 48-month variance from the bottom of the

advisory sentencing guidelines range. Id. at 1285-86. 

Appellate Case: 07-3080 Page: 1 Date Filed: 03/19/2008 Entry ID: 3414322
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At resentencing, the district court adhered to our previous requirement that

extraordinary variances required extraordinary circumstances. The Supreme Court

now has “rejected ‘an appellate rule that requires “extraordinary” circumstances to

justify a sentence outside the Guidelines range.’” United States v. McGhee, 512 F.3d

1050, 1051-52 (2008) (per curiam) (quoting Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. ---, 128

S. Ct. 586, 595 (Dec. 10, 2007)). “[W]e understand the Court’s opinion in Gall also

to preclude a requirement of ‘extraordinary circumstances’ to justify an ‘extraordinary

variance,’ for that was the only type of sentence outside the guidelines range to which

this court had applied an ‘extraordinary circumstances’ requirement.” Id. at 1052.

Therefore, we vacate Morales-Uribe’s sentence of 90 months’ imprisonment and

remand for resentencing in light of Gall.

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Appellate Case: 07-3080 Page: 2 Date Filed: 03/19/2008 Entry ID: 3414322