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Date Created: 2023-01-31 19:00:32.500591+00
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Case: 21-30329        Document: 00516629479             Page: 1      Date Filed: 01/31/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit                                       United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                       Fifth Circuit

                                                                                     FILED
                                                                              January 31, 2023
                                       No. 21-30329
                                                                                Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                     Clerk
   United States of America,

                                                                     Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                            versus

   Thomas Landry,

                                                                 Defendant—Appellant.

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Eastern District of Louisiana
                              USDC No. 2:19-CR-175-7

   Before Elrod, Haynes, and Willett, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam:*
         Thomas Landry appeals his sentence for conspiring to distribute and
   to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base and using a communication
   facility in the commission of a conspiracy. He was sentenced to 151 months’
   imprisonment on the conspiracy count, and 48 months’ imprisonment on the
   communication facility count.

         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 21-30329       Document: 00516629479          Page: 2   Date Filed: 01/31/2023

                                     No. 21-30329

          At sentencing, Landry’s defense counsel asked if this federal sentence
   would run concurrently with Landry’s state sentence. The Government
   informed the district court that it did not believe that the court had the power
   to run the sentences concurrently.
          On appeal, the Government concedes that it was incorrect about the
   district court’s statutory discretion under 18 U.S.C. § 3584(a) to run
   Landry’s sentence concurrently with his undischarged state sentence and
   acknowledges that its advice may have contributed to the district court’s
   misunderstanding of the scope of its authority.
          The Government requests that the case be remanded to allow the
   district court to consider whether the sentences should run concurrently. We
   agree. We VACATE the sentence and REMAND for the district court to
   consider whether to run Landry’s federal sentence concurrently with his
   state sentence.

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