Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Babajide SOBITAN, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-07-11
Citations: 138 F. App'x 846
Docket Number: No. 04-2739
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Babajide SOBITAN, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before ROVNER, WOOD, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 138
Pages: 846–846

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Babajide SOBITAN, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 04-2739.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Submitted June 23, 2005.
Decided July 11, 2005.
John F. Podliska, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for PlaintiffAppellee.
Richard H. Parsons, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Peoria, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before ROVNER, WOOD, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
After an examination of the briefs and the record, we have concluded that oral argument is unnecessary. Thus, the appeal is submitted on the briefs and the record. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
ORDER
Babajide Sobitan was convicted of attempting to reenter the United States without authorization after having been deported, 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), and was sentenced to 97 months' imprisonment. He argues under United States v. Booker,—U.S.-, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), that the district court improperly treated the sentencing guidelines as mandatory and impermissibly increased his offense level based on facts found only by a preponderance of the evidence. Sobitan preserved these arguments by objecting at sentencing, and thus our review is plenary. United States v. Schlifer, 403 F.3d 849, 854 (7th Cir.2005); United States v. Hollis, 230 F.3d 955, 958-59 (7th Cir.2000); United States v. Paz, 405 F.3d 946, 948-49 (11th Cir.2005). Thus we must vacate Sobitan's sentence unless the government can establish that the error was harmless, Schlifer, 403 F.3d at 854, a burden that the government concedes it cannot meet here. Accordingly, we VACATE Sobitan's sentence and REMAND for resentencing in light of Booker. See id.