Opinion ID: 77254
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Text: 2 On November 3, 1994, Moore was indicted for conspiring to possess cocaine with intent to manufacture cocaine base, and on December 21, 1994, Moore pled guilty, pursuant to a plea agreement. The district court ordered Moore to serve the statutory minimum of 120 months in custody of the Bureau of Prisons, followed by 60 months of supervised release. The court later reduced Moore's sentence to 64 months based on her substantial assistance to the United States. Moore began serving her 60-month term of supervised release on June 11, 1999. In April 2001, the district court modified the conditions of her supervised release due to a state conviction for obtaining goods by use of false credit cards. She was ordered to serve 3 months in a community correctional center. 1 3 On May 30, 2004, Moore was arrested and jailed by the North Miami Beach Police for grand theft involving a vehicle. She posted bail on May 31, 2004. She failed to notify her probation officer of the arrest. On June 2, 2004, Moore's probation officer called to notify her that he was aware of the arrest. The probation office subsequently petitioned the court to issue a summons for Moore on the grounds that she violated the terms of her supervised release. On June 9, 2004, the United States Probation Office filed a petition for revocation of Moore's supervised release based on her violation of the following conditions: (1) that she not commit any crimes during her supervised release and (2) that she notify her probation officer within seventy-two hours of being arrested or questioned by a law enforcement officer. 4 On the same day, the district court ordered issuance of the summons and the clerk's office forwarded an unsigned summons for Moore's appearance via facsimile and federal express from Jacksonville to the Miami probation office. On June 10, 2004, the clerk of court signed a summons for Moore's appearance in Jacksonville. Moore was served with a summons on June 15, 2004. The district court's docket sheet indicates that the summons was filed by the clerk's office and placed into the public record on June 23, 2004. 5 On October 26, 2004, the United States filed an amended petition detailing the criminal conduct which led to Moore's arrest in 2004, and which formed the basis for her revocation of supervised release. The petition alleged that on November 3, 2003, Moore fraudulently used the name, social security number, and date of birth of another to purchase a Mercedes. The Mercedes was reported stolen, and she was subsequently arrested on May 30, 2004 when involved in a car accident while driving the Mercedes. 6 On November 4, 2004, the court conducted a supervised release revocation hearing. Moore contended, among other things, that the court lacked jurisdiction over her pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(i) 2 , which requires that a summons for revocation of supervised release issue prior to the expiration of the supervised release term. Specifically, she argued that a valid summons was not issued prior to the expiration of her term of supervised release on June 10, 2004. The district court concluded that it had jurisdiction over Moore based on its factual finding that the court issued an order for a summons on June 9, 2004 and that the clerk of court signed a summons on June 10, 2004. The court determined that those two actions were sufficient to constitute issuance of a summons under § 3583(i). 7 During the hearing, the court stated that it would not consider matters other than grounds five and six of the amended petition (grounds one and two of the original petition), which were Moore's arrest and failure to report the arrest. Moore came to an agreement with the government in which she admitted to ground six of the amended petition (failure to notify her probation officer within seventy-two hours of arrest) and the government agreed, in turn, not to proceed on grounds one through five (crimes arising out of Moore's obtaining and using the Mercedes). 8 The district court sentenced Moore to 18 months imprisonment. The statutory maximum penalty for Moore's violation was five years in prison, and the guidelines range was three to nine months. The court noted that the guidelines comments suggest an upward departure from the recommended guidelines range where (1) the Grade C violation is associated with a high risk of new felonious conduct, USSG § 7B1.4, comment. (n.3), or (2) the defendant received a downward departure at the original sentencing, Id. at n. 4. The court also expressed concern about whether Moore had learned a lesson. 9 Moore filed a corrected motion for arrest of judgment in which she re-asserted her motion to dismiss and argued that her technical violation did not justify such a harsh sentence. Moore also raised jurisdictional arguments, and contended that the district court improperly considered her conduct involving the Mercedes, her underlying criminal conduct involving the drug conviction, and some undisclosed conduct. The district court denied the motion. Moore now appeals her sentence.