Opinion ID: 2976722
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Text: We emphasize that although we conclude, based on the record before us, that the district court abused its discretion in imposing a sentence of only one day of incarceration, we do not hold that such a sentence is necessarily substantively unreasonable. However, because the district court 17 placed an unreasonable amount of weight on Hughes’s attempts to repay SunTrust, and unreasonably speculated about the timing of the prosecution and SunTrust’s desire for the court to impose a particular sentence, we conclude that Hughes’s sentence is substantively unreasonable. Therefore, we VACATE Hughes’s sentence and REMAND this case to the district court for resentencing in accordance with our opinion. 18 ROGERS, concurring. I concur in the majority opinion. I do have a concern that the district court’s statements could be read to indicate that the district court impermissibly took race into account in this case. However, the case is being remanded to the district court in any event, and we have read the record to indicate that the district court instead mentioned defendant’s race only incidentally in discussing the defendant’s efforts to help a medically under-served population in Tennessee. The district court on remand is of course bound to limit its consideration of that factor to the way that we have read it. 19