Opinion ID: 4317843
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Andrew Shelton

Text: The district court sentenced Andrew Shelton on October 3, 2017. Relevant here, the pre-sentence report (“PSR”) suggested: a two-level Guidelines enhancement for stolen ﬁrearms pursuant to § 2K2.1(b)(4)(A) (the “stolen ﬁrearm enhancement”); a four-level enhancement for “engag[ing] in the traﬃcking of ﬁrearms” pursuant to § 2K2.1(b)(5) (the “trafﬁcking enhancement”); and a four-level enhancement for “us[ing] or possess[ing] any ﬁrearm or ammunition in connection with another felony oﬀense” pursuant to § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) (the “other felony oﬀense enhancement”). Shelton objected to the application of the other felony oﬀense enhancement, and the district court overruled the objection. It reasoned: Here, Mr. Shelton clearly possessed the ﬁrearms that he was taking from the train in connection with another offense, namely, that train robbery. Application note 14(B) to the guideline, 2K2.1, is directly on point. It says that subsection (b)(6)(B), which is the subsection we’re talking about, applies in a case of a defendant who during the course of a burglary ﬁnds and takes a ﬁrearm even if the defendant did not engage in any other conduct with that ﬁrearm during the course of the bur- glary. Additionally, Shelton objected to the PSR’s recommendation of eleven criminal history points. Pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(a) and § 4A1.2(k), the PSR suggested adding three criminal history points for each of three 1999 burglary convic- 4 Nos. 17-3084, 17-3127, 17-3396, 17-3559 tions. According to the PSR, Shelton was ﬁrst arrested for burglary on January 24, 1999; on July 28, 1999, he pleaded guilty and he was sentenced to three years of probation. On February 8, 1999, Shelton again was arrested for burglary; on March 8, 1999, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to twenty-nine days’ imprisonment followed by three years of probation. And on August 26, 1999, Shelton was arrested for burglary a third time; he pleaded guilty on May 23, 2000. By committing this third burglary, Shelton violated the terms of his probation. The court revoked his probation and, for each of the three burglary convictions, sentenced Shelton to “4 years of custody in the IDOC, concurrent with [the other two case numbers].” He was released from custody on February 21, 2001, which is within ﬁfteen years of the commencement of this case, April 12, 2015. At sentencing, Shelton argued criminal history points were only appropriate for the May 2000 conviction. The court disagreed. Because there was no evidentiary presentation to the contrary, the court assumed the PSR’s description of Shelton’s prior convictions was accurate. It concluded that “what the state court did formally was to impose that four-year sentence of revocation on each of those three cases, two of them being probation violations and one of them being an original sentence.” Because the revocation term of imprisonment plus the original term of imprisonment was greater than thirteen months, and Shelton’s date of release from incarceration was within fifteen years of commencement of the present offense, Nos. 17-3084, 17-3127, 17-3396, 17-3559 5 the court imposed three criminal history points for Shelton’s March 1999 conviction. See U.S.S.G § 4A1.2(e), (k). 1 In total, Shelton’s adjusted oﬀense level was 29 and criminal history category was IV. The Guidelines suggested a term of imprisonment of 121–151 months. After the court examined the § 3553(a) factors, it commented that the disputed Guidelines factors and Shelton’s criminal history score were not material to its sentencing decision. The court then imposed a below-Guidelines imprisonment term of 120 months and three years of supervised release.