Court Opinion

ID: 9416069
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 19:25:57.006004+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:16:29.582222
License: Public Domain

CARNES, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in all of the Court’s opinion except for the first six paragraphs of Part II. A. In those paragraphs the Court holds that the district court did not err in its application of U.S.S.G. § 2B5.3(b)(l) by calculating the infringement amount using the retail value in the United States of the infringed item, instead of using the retail value in Latin America of the infringing item. I see no need to decide this issue in order to dispose of the appeal.
The district court explicitly stated that even if it had decided the infringing amount issue the other way, which would have resulted in a lower offense level, it would have imposed the same sentence after considering the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors. And, as the Court concludes in Part II B. of our opinion, the final sentence is reasonable. That means, under United States v. Keene, 470 F.3d 1347 (11th Cir.2006), we can affirm regardless of whether the district court was correct in its interpretation and application of § 2B5.3(b)(l). On that basis I concur in the affirmance.