Case Name: UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Kevin GREEN Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-09-10
Citations: 108 F. App'x 688
Docket Number: Docket No. 03-1781
Parties: UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Kevin GREEN Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: PRESENT: JACOBS, POOLER, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 108
Pages: 688–688

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Kevin GREEN Defendant-Appellee.
Docket No. 03-1781.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Sept. 10, 2004.
Peter Katz, Assistant U.S. Attorney, E.D.N.Y. (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, U.S. Attorney and Susan Corkery, Assistant U.S. Attorney, on the brief), for Appellant.
Yuanchung Lee, Legal Aid Society, New York, NY, for Appellee.
PRESENT: JACOBS, POOLER, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
The United States appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Korman, C.J.), entered on November 25, 2003, granting the defendant a downward departure from the Sentencing Guidelines range stipulated in his plea agreement. It is assumed that the parties are familiar with the facts, the procedural context, and the specification of appellate issues.
We are unable to determine confidently on the present record whether the circumstances of this case he outside the heartland of the Sentencing Guidelines, chiefly because we are unable to determine the nature or extent of the defendant's lost pension funds. Since under United States v. Kostakis, 364 F.3d 45 (2d Cir.2004), our review of downward sentencing departures is de novo, we vacate the sentence and remand for the district court to make factual findings that reflect the extent and nature of the pension loss and to re-sentence the defendant on a basis that the district court believes properly reflects those findings.
The Clerk of Court is to direct any further appeal of this sentence to this panel.
For the reasons set forth above, the judgment of the district court is hereby VACATED and the case is REMANDED.