Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Adrian Lamont KEARNEY, a/k/a Adrian Carlton White, a/k/a A.D., Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-09-30
Citations: 448 F. App'x 348
Docket Number: No. 10-5237
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Adrian Lamont KEARNEY, a/k/a Adrian Carlton White, a/k/a A.D., Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before DAVIS, KEENAN, and DIAZ, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 448
Pages: 348–349

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Adrian Lamont KEARNEY, a/k/a Adrian Carlton White, a/k/a A.D., Defendant-Appellant.
No. 10-5237.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: Sept. 19, 2011.
Decided: Sept. 30, 2011.
Thomas P. McNamara, Federal Public Defender, G. Alan DuBois, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant. George E.B. Holding, United States Attorney, Jennifer P. May-Parker, Kristine L. Fritz, Assistant United States Attorneys, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Before DAVIS, KEENAN, and DIAZ, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
Vacated and remanded by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Adrian Lamont Kearney pled guilty to distribution of five grams or more of crack cocaine (Count One), and possession with intent to distribute fifty or more grams of crack cocaine (Count Two), in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) (2006). The district court sentenced Kearney on December 6, 2010, to the statutorily-mandated minimum sentence of 120 months on Count Two, to run concurrently with a ninety-seven month sentence on Count One. Kearney appealed the sentence, arguing that the district court erred in failing to sentence him in accordance with the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 ("FSA"). The United States initially opposed resentencing.
On July 22, 2011, the Government filed a supplemental brief setting forth its revised position on the application of the FSA. The Government now agrees that Kearney should have been sentenced pursuant to the FSA because his sentencing occurred after the Act's effective date. Thus, the Government requests a remand for resen-tencing.
Based on our consideration of the materials submitted, we vacate the district court's judgment and remand this case to the district court to permit resentencing. By this disposition, however, we indicate no view as to whether the FSA is retroactively applicable to a defendant like Kear-ney whose offenses were committed prior to August 3, 2010, the effective date of the FSA, but who was sentenced after that date, leaving that determination in the first instance to the district court.
We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
VACATED AND REMANDED.
The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 increased the threshold quantities of cocaine base needed to trigger certain mandatory minimum sentences.