Opinion ID: 3037353
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Ameline Remand

Text: [22] Lo contends that he is entitled to a limited remand pursuant to United States v. Ameline, 409 F.3d 1073 (9th Cir. 2005) (en banc). Because Lo was sentenced under the thenmandatory Sentencing Guidelines and it is not clear from the record whether the court would have imposed a materially different sentence had it known that the Guidelines were only advisory, it is appropriate to remand to the sentencing court for a determination of whether that court would have imposed a different sentence. See id.; see also United States v. Moreno-Hernandez, 419 F.3d 906, 916 (9th Cir. 2005) (extending Ameline’s limited remand procedure to cases involving non-constitutional Booker errors). 15 Lo contends that, if he is subject to the minimum sentence, in accordance with Booker, the minimum should be an advisory minimum, not a mandatory minimum. There is nothing in Booker to suggest that statutorily mandated minimum sentences are merely advisory if the sentence is based on facts found by a jury by a preponderance of the evidence. UNITED STATES v. LO 5485