12-887-cr United States v. Dhafir



### UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS **FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT**



## SUMMARY ORDER

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**.** 10 11 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -X 12 **UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,** 13 **Appellee ,**  14 15 **-v.- 12-887-cr** 16 17 **RAFIL DHAFIR, AKA Sealed Deft # 1,** 18 **Defendant-Appellant ,**  19 20 **Maher Zagha, AKA Sealed Deft # 2,** 21 **Ayman Jarwan, AKA Sealed Deft # 3,** 22 **Osameh Al Wahaidy, AKA Sealed Deft** 23 **# 4, Help the Needy, AKA Sealed Deft** 24 **# 5, Help the Needy Endowment, Inc.,** 25 **AKA Sealed Deft # 6,** 26 **Defendants**

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11 **FOR APPELLANT:** PETER GOLDBERGER (Pamela A. 2 Wilk, on the brief ), Ardmore, 3 Pennsylvania. 4 5 **FOR APPELLEE:** MICHAEL C. OLMSTED (Stephen C. 6 Green, on the brief ), for 7 Richard S. Hartunian, United 8 States Attorney for the Northern 9 District of New York, Syracuse, 10 New York. 11 12 Appeal from a judgment of the United States District 13 Court for the Northern District of New York (Mordue, J. ). 14 15 **UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED** 16 **AND DECREED**that the judgment of the district court be 17 **AFFIRMED**

. 18 19 Rafil Dhafir appeals from the judgment of the United 20 States District Court for the Northern District of New York 21 (Mordue, J. ), reconsidering the incarceration portion of his 22 sentence pursuant to our prior opinion in United States v. 23 Dhafir , 577 F.3d 411 (2d Cir. 2009), and re-sentencing 24 Dhafir to 264 months’ imprisonment

. We assume the parties’ 25 familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural 26 history, and the issues presented for review. 27 28 Dhafir argues that the district court erred by using 29 Section 2S1.1(a)(2) of the United States Sentencing 30 Guidelines in the re-sentencing. Our prior opinion directed 31 the district court to “consider whether a different sentence 32 would result from the application of th[e] more flexible 33 approach” suggested in United States v. Crosby , 397 F.3d 103 34 (2d Cir. 2005), in which, after determining that “‘either of 35 two Guidelines ranges, whether or not adjacent, is 36 applicable, . . . the sentencing judge, having complied with 37 section 3553(a), makes a decision to impose a non-Guidelines 38 sentence, regardless of which of the two ranges applies.’” 39 Dhafir , 577 F.3d at 415 (quoting Crosby , 397 F.3d at 112). 40 The district court did precisely as our prior decision in 41 Dhafirinstructed: It explicitly considered the Crosby 42 approach. After determining that the Crosbyapproach would 43 not result in a different sentence, the district court re44 sentenced Dhafir to 264 months. In any event, the district 45

2court found in the alternative that if Section 2S1.1(a)(1) 1 applied, the same sentence would have been imposed, given 2 the seriousness of Dhafir’s offense and other factors under 3 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). 4 5 For the foregoing reasons, and finding no merit in 6 Dhafir’s other arguments, we hereby **AFFIRM** the judgment of 7 the district court. 8 9 FOR THE COURT: 10 CATHERINE O’HAGAN WOLFE, CLERK 11 12

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