Court Opinion

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                           NOT FOR PUBLICATION                              FEB 21 2014

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TERRANCE LAMONT MOORE,                           No. 12-16325

              Petitioner - Appellant,            D.C. No. 1:11-cv-01446-LJO-JLT

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM*
H. A. RIOS,

              Respondent - Appellee.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Eastern District of California
                   Lawrence J. O’Neill, District Judge, Presiding

                          Submitted February 12, 2014**
                            San Francisco, California

Before: REINHARDT and THOMAS, Circuit Judges, and SESSIONS, District
Judge.***

        *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
        **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
        ***
             The Honorable William K. Sessions, III, District Judge for the U.S.
District Court for the District of Vermont, sitting by designation.
      Petitioner Terrance Lamont Moore (“Moore”) appeals from the district

court’s dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition for writ of habeas corpus. We

have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and reverse and remand. Because

the parties are familiar with the history of the case, we will not recount it here.

      We review de novo a district court’s decision to grant or deny a

petition for writ of habeas corpus filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. United States v.

Lemoine, 546 F.3d 1042, 1046 (9th Cir. 2008).

      Because Moore’s claim goes to the execution of the restitution order,

specifically improper delegation, he properly brought his petition under § 2241,

and he did not waive his argument by failing to challenge the restitution order

before the sentencing court either on direct appeal or under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. See

Ward v. Chavez, 678 F.3d 1042, 1044–45 (9th Cir. 2012); Lemoine, 546 F.3d at

1047–50.

      After the district court entered judgment, we held that “a sentencing court

must consider the defendant’s financial resources in setting a restitution payment

schedule, and, if the defendant is unable to pay restitution immediately, the court

cannot simply order ‘immediate’ repayment and leave the details of the actual

payment schedule to the BOP.” Ward, 678 F.3d at 1052. Further, because an

improper payment schedule deprives the Bureau of Prisons of authority to collect

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restitution payments through the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program, the

imposition of a deficient restitution order was not harmless error. Id. at 1051.

      We therefore reverse the district court’s ruling and remand for consideration

of the restitution order under Ward.

      REVERSED and REMANDED.

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