Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Cornelius HENLEY, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-05-26
Citations: 426 F. App'x 334
Docket Number: No. 10-60586
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Cornelius HENLEY, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before WIENER, PRADO, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 426
Pages: 334–335

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Cornelius HENLEY, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 10-60586
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
May 26, 2011.
Susan Spears Bradley, Esq., Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Oxford, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Kenneth Harold Coghlan, Rayburn Coghlan Law Firm, P.L.L.C., Oxford, MS, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before WIENER, PRADO, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Cornelius Henley appeals from the 60-month sentence of imprisonment imposed for his guilty plea conviction for aiding and abetting another to make false statements to a federally licensed firearm dealer in connection with the purchase of a firearm. He argues that the district court erred by determining that he warranted an upward departure under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.3(a) and by failing to follow the correct procedure when calculating the extent of the departure under § 4A1.3(a)(4).
Although the district court stated at sentencing that it would impose an "upward departure," it also stated that it would "impose a sentence that is above the advisory guideline range," discussed the various 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors that justified the sentence, and noted that it received guidance from United States v. Herrera-Garduno, 519 F.3d 526 (5th Cir.2008). Moreover, because the district court clarified in the Statement of Reasons that it was imposing a sentence outside the advisory sentencing guidelines system, we review the imposed sentence as a non-guideline sentence. See United States v. Jacobs, 635 F.3d 778, 780 n. 1 (5th Cir.2011).
Henley's arguments specifically regarding the § 4A1.3(a) departure are not relevant as to the imposed non-guideline sentence. Moreover, our review of the district court's reasons for applying the variance and determining the extent of the variance show that the imposed sentence was not unreasonable under the circumstances. See Herrera-Garduno, 519 F.3d at 532.
The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.
Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.