Opinion ID: 3059457
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: new sentence in absentia

Text: In a written, April 20, 2009 order issued without a hearing and without the benefit of briefing, the district court vacated Jones’s original Judgment and Conviction in the underlying criminal case. The district court then stated that it had considered the revised guidelines range and the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors and sentenced Jones to 33 months’ imprisonment. The court continued, “If this sentence is less than the amount of time that Jones has already served, then the sentence is reduced to a ‘time served’ sentence.” In a separate April 21, 2009 order, the district court noted the revised sentence but ordered that “all other terms and conditions shall remain in effect as originally imposed.” Finally, the court 5 ordered the clerk to prepare a revised “Judgment and Commitment” order effecting the terms and conditions of the revised sentences. The clerk duly entered a revised Judgment, but page one of the revised Judgment improperly continues to show a conviction on Count Three (the firearm count). Page two of the revised Judgment imposed a revised 33-month sentence but does not limit the 33-month sentence to Counts One and Two. The revised Judgment not only continues to show the six-year concurrent terms of supervised release on Counts One and Two, but also improperly continues to impose a term of supervised release and a special assessment on the firearm count (Count Three).