Opinion ID: 172852
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Heading: The District Court Erred in Calculating Mr. Caldwell's Criminal History Category

Text: The PSR initially calculated Mr. Caldwell's criminal history points at six, for a criminal history category of III. Both the government and Mr. Caldwell objected to that recommendation. The district court denied Mr. Caldwell's objections and granted the government's objection, adding two points to Mr. Caldwell's criminal history. Mr. Caldwell's eight criminal history points qualified him for a criminal history category of IV. On appeal, Mr. Caldwell argues that the district court wrongly attributed three criminal history points to him based on his 2002 conviction for driving while a habitual violator, and that the district court wrongly attributed two points to him based on two 1995 convictions. Reviewing the district court's legal interpretations of the Sentencing Guidelines de novo and its factual findings that form the basis for its calculation of Mr. Caldwell's criminal history category for clear error, see United States v. Moore, 130 F.3d 1414, 1416 (10th Cir.1997), we hold that, although most of the district court's calculations of Mr. Caldwell's criminal history points were correct, the court erred in attributing two points to Mr. Caldwell for committing one of the offenses of conviction while serving under a criminal justice sentence. Mr. Caldwell should, therefore, have been given a criminal history category of III, not IV. Accordingly, we reverse and remand this case for resentencing.