Opinion ID: 1363132
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Heading: The District Court's Calculation of Fink's Sentence

Text: Having determined that the February 1999 conviction could not be treated as a prior crime-of-violence conviction that would serve as a career offender predicate, the district court determined Fink's GSR using base calculations. The district court concluded that Fink's total offense level was 23 [4] and his criminal history category was IV, yielding a GSR of seventy to eighty-seven months. Having also ruled that the 2002 cocaine possession conviction was a prior felony drug offense for the purposes of enhancing Fink's sentence under ß 841(b)(1)(B), the statutory mandatory minimum of ten years governed and the district court sentenced Fink to ten years in prison and ten years of supervised release. Fink appeals the district court's ruling regarding ß 841(b)(1)(B), and also, for the first time on appeal, challenges the order that he serve ten years of supervised release. The government cross appeals the district court's ruling on Fink's career offender status.