Opinion ID: 3048829
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Text: In September 2004, Toles was convicted of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and was sentenced to 71 months of imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release. Toles began serving his term of supervised release on January 15, 2010. On October 26, 2010, the district judge revoked Toles’s term of supervised release, because he had been arrested for possessing a firearm. The judge sentenced Toles to 24 months of imprisonment, with no supervised release to follow. On October 19, 2010, Toles was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). He pled guilty to the charge, and on April 1, 2011, the district judge sentenced Toles to 27 months of imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release, to run concurrently with the 24-month imprisonment sentence imposed on October 26, 2010. Toles began serving his second term of supervised release on March 8, 2013. On November 21, 2013, the district judge revoked Toles’s second term of supervised release, because Toles failed to comply with numerous terms of his supervision. The judge sentenced Toles to an imprisonment sentence of time-served, plus a 24-month term of supervised release, which was to begin upon Toles’s release to Herring House, a residential substance-abuse-rehabilitation facility in Dothan, Alabama. A mandatory term of supervised release required 2 Case: 14-10788 Date Filed: 09/09/2014 Page: 3 of 6 Toles to attend and to comply with all obligations of Herring House for one year or until he was discharged successfully from the program. Toles began his third term of supervised release on December 10, 2013, when he was released to Herring House. On January 6, 2014, Toles was discharged from Herring House for disruptive behavior and noncompliance with program rules and objectives. The same day, the government filed a petition to revoke Toles’s third term of supervised release, based upon his discharge from Herring House. At the revocation hearing, Toles admitted to violating a mandatory term of supervision; the district judge revoked Toles’s term of supervised release. Before imposing Tole’s sentence, the judge recognized the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range was 7 to 13 months of imprisonment, and the statutory maximum term was 24 months of imprisonment. Rather than imprisonment, Toles requested that he be sent to a facility that could provide both substance-abuse and mentalhealth treatment. The judge denied the request, sentenced Toles to the statutory-maximum sentence, and noted Toles had 22 prior convictions or adjudications, and this was the third time the judge had revoked Toles’s supervision. The judge explained a sentence above the Guidelines range was warranted, because Toles previously had received the benefit of lesser sentences but had not changed his behavior. 3 Case: 14-10788 Date Filed: 09/09/2014 Page: 4 of 6 On appeal, Toles argues his 24-month imprisonment sentence is both plainly erroneous and unreasonable, because it is greater than necessary to comply with the purposes of sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3553. He also contends his sentence creates an unwarranted sentencing disparity among supervised-release-revocation cases, and he cites two unpublished decisions, United States v. DeArmas, 556 F. App’x 854 (11th Cir. 2014) (per curiam), and United States v. Gray, 290 F. App’x 283 (11th Cir. 2008) (per curiam), to support this assertion.