Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lesuin J. GARCIA, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-05-21
Citations: 375 F. App'x 631
Docket Number: No. 10-1210
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lesuin J. GARCIA, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before JOEL M. FLAUM, Circuit Judge, DANIEL A. MANION, Circuit Judge, DAVID F. HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 375
Pages: 631–633

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lesuin J. GARCIA, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 10-1210.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Argued May 19, 2010.
Decided May 21, 2010.
Rita M. Rumbelow, Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Mark P. Maclolek, Attorney, Madison, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before JOEL M. FLAUM, Circuit Judge, DANIEL A. MANION, Circuit Judge, DAVID F. HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

Opinion:
ORDER
On April 17, 2009, Lesuin Garcia was convicted of state bank fraud crimes in Kentucky and sentenced to three years in state prison. He was later charged in the Western District of Wisconsin with violations of the federal bank fraud statute. Garcia pled guilty to two counts of the federal indictment. The advisory sentencing guideline for his federal crimes was four to ten months, using an offense level that had been increased by treating Garcia's related Kentucky crimes as relevant conduct. The federal district court sentenced Garcia on January 15, 2010, to 10 months of imprisonment to run concurrently with his Kentucky sentence. The parties agree that the district court should have, but did not, calculate Garcia's guideline range to include credit under U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(b)(l) for the nine months he had already served in Kentucky because those Kentucky acts had been used to raise his offense level by four levels. As a result, Garcia's 10-month sentence represented an upward variance of about nine months. The district court did not explain this aspect of its sentence.
At oral argument, Garcia's counsel informed the court that Garcia has been released from custody by Kentucky (presumably on parole) and is listed as "in transit" to federal prison. The government's counsel conceded that, under these circumstances, the district court's incorrect guideline application cannot be considered harmless without further explanation. We therefore vacate Garcia's sentence and remand his case to the district court with instructions to re-sentence Garcia as soon as possible. The district court, of course, might exercise its discretion to impose a sentence with the same or similar practical effect on Garcia, exercising its discretion under United States v. Booker and Gall v. United States, but must explain its reasons for doing so. See United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005); Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007).
Accordingly, we VACATE Garcia's sentence and remand to the district court for re-sentencing. The mandate shall issue immediately.