Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Frankie DeLaRosa MURGUIA, Jr., a.k.a. Hopper, a.k.a. Papas, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-06-09
Citations: 437 F. App'x 602
Docket Number: No. 10-50380
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Frankie DeLaRosa MURGUIA, Jr., a.k.a. Hopper, a.k.a. Papas, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before: PREGERSON, THOMAS, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 437
Pages: 602–603

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Frankie DeLaRosa MURGUIA, Jr., a.k.a. Hopper, a.k.a. Papas, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 10-50380.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted May 24, 2011.
Filed June 9, 2011.
William A. Crowfoot, Michael Scott Lowe, Patrick William McLaughlin, Es quire, Michael J. Raphael, Esquire, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
James Pernell Cooper, III, Esquire, Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before: PREGERSON, THOMAS, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Frankie DeLaRosa Murguia, Jr., appeals from the 15-year supervised release term imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations conspiracy, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) and 846. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we vacate the supervised release term and remand for resentencing.
In imposing sentence, the district court erroneously calculated the Guidelines range for the supervised release term as three years to life. As the government concedes, the Guidelines range is instead three to five years. See U.S.S.G. § 5D1.2(a)(l). The court imposed a supervised release term three times greater than the high-end of that range, and far in excess of Murguia's 30-month custodial sentence. Under these circumstances, we cannot conclude that the court would have imposed the same sentence absent the Guidelines error. Accordingly, we vacate Murguia's supervised release term and remand for resentencing so that the district court's analysis can proceed from "an initial determination of the correct Guidelines range." United States v. Munoz-Camarena, 631 F.3d 1028, 1031 (9th Cir.2011) (per curiam); see also United States v. Hammons, 558 F.3d 1100, 1105-06 (9th Cir.2009) (district court's failure to calculate the correct Guidelines range was plain error).
VACATED in part and REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.