Court Opinion

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                           File Name: 05a0356n.06
                              Filed: May 5, 2005

                                             03-1338

                          UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                               FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA                                 )
                                                         )        ON APPEAL FROM THE
       Plaintiff-Appellee,                               )        UNITED STATES DISTRICT
                                                         )        COURT FOR THE WESTERN
v.                                                       )        DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
                                                         )
JUSTIN C. WILSON                                         )                           OPINION
                                                         )
       Defendant-Appellant.                              )
                                                         )

BEFORE:        MARTIN, COLE, and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges.

       PER CURIAM. Justin C. Wilson appeals his sentence imposed following his convictions

via guilty plea for conspiracy to distribute more than 50 kilograms of marijuana in violation of 21

U.S.C. §§ 841 and 846 and conspiracy to launder money in violation of 18.U.S.C. § 1956(h). This

Court has previously held that the district court properly applied a leadership sentencing

enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1(c). United States v. Wilson, 112 Fed.Appx. 497, 2004 WL
2367972 (6th Cir. Oct. 20, 2004). On certiorari, that judgment was vacated and remanded to this

Court for proceedings consistent with United States v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738 (2005). Wilson v.

United States, 125 S. Ct. 1392 (2005).

       Upon consideration, the sentence is vacated and the case is remanded to the district court for

resentencing pursuant to the decisions in United States v. Oliver, 397 F.3d 369 (6th Cir. 2005), and

United States v. Barnett, 398 F.3d 516 (6th Cir. 2005). On remand, “we encourage the sentencing
judge to explicitly state his reasons for applying particular Guidelines, and sentencing within the

recommended Guidelines range, or in the alternative, for choosing to sentence outside that range.

Such a statement will facilitate appellate review as to whether the sentence was ‘reasonable.’”

United States v. Jones, 399 F.3d 640, 650 (6th Cir. 2005); see also Booker, 125 S. Ct. at 765 (noting

that appellate review of a district court sentence is for reasonableness); United States v. Webb, —

F.3d —, 2005 WL 763367 (6th Cir. 2005) (engaging in reasonableness review, but refusing to

“define rigidly at this time either the meaning of reasonableness or the procedures that a district

judge must employ in sentencing post-Booker”).

       Accordingly, we VACATE the sentence and REMAND for proceedings consistent with this

opinion.