Opinion ID: 714169
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Heading: Criminal History Category VI

Text: 22 Goudy also argues that the district court erred in computing his criminal history category under USSG § 4A1.2. The district court calculated Goudy's criminal history category at VI based in part on Goudy's 1985 Illinois conviction and his 1982 Florida conviction. In 1985, Goudy was sentenced to 15 years for conspiracy and bank larceny, crimes which took place from 1979 until February 1981. In 1982, Goudy had been sentenced to 30 years for grand theft and organized scheme to defraud, crimes which took place in November of 1981. Goudy argues the two crimes are a related case because they were not separated by an intervening arrest. According to Goudy, the two convictions thus should not be considered as separate offenses for the sake of computing criminal history under USSG § 4A1.2 23 Goudy did not raise this issue before the district court or on his initial appeal to this court. Accordingly, he has twice waived the argument and it is reviewed for plain error only. United States v. Wallace, 32 F.3d 1171, 1174 (7th Cir.1994). 24 Sentencing Guideline § 4A1.2(a)(2) provides that prior sentences in unrelated cases be considered separately. In arguing that the two offenses must be considered as related, Goudy directs us to one part of the Guidelines focusing on intervening arrests as determining whether two crimes have occurred: Prior sentences are not considered related if they were for offenses that were separated by an intervening arrest. USSG § 4A1.2, comment. (n. 3). Goudy argues this requires the inverse, that prior sentences be considered related if they were not separated by an intervening arrest. Besides being illogical, Goudy's argument ignores the rest of the appropriate Guideline, specifically the text of § 4A1.2(a)(2), which provides that prior sentences imposed in unrelated cases are to be counted separately, as well as the balance of Application Note 3 which requires offenses be considered related only if they (1) occurred on the same occasion, (2) were part of a single common plan or scheme, or (3) were consolidated for trial or sentencing. USSG § 4A1.2, comment. (n. 3). The district court did not err when it declined to consider two distinct crimes, committed in two different states, prosecuted by two different sovereigns three years apart, as the same crime for purposes of criminal history category. We therefore affirm the district court's determination of Goudy's criminal history category.