Court Opinion

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                            FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
                             ____________________

                                  No. 00-41285
                                Summary Calendar
                            ___________________
                         UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                                             Plaintiff-Appellee,

                                      versus

                            VIRDIS LARON BONNER,

                                             Defendant-Appellant.
_________________________________________________________________

           Appeal from the United States District Court
                for the Southern District of Texas
                          (C-00-CR-227-1)
_________________________________________________________________
                           April 23, 2001

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, WIENER, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

     Virdis LaRon Bonner appeals his sentence following his guilty-

plea conviction for bank fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1344.

Bonner maintains, for the first time on appeal, that the district

court erred by delegating to the probation office the duty to
designate     the   payment      schedule      for   the     ordered   mandatory

restitution (approximately $35,000).

     We     conclude     that   the    district      court    committed   plain,

reversible error in both its oral pronouncement and its written

judgment     when   it    delegated     to     the    probation     office   the

responsibility of establishing a payment schedule for Bonner to pay

     *
      Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the Court has determined that
this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except
under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.
restitution remaining after his release from prison. See 18 U.S.C.

§ 3664(F)(2); United States v. Albro, 32 F.3d 173, 174-75 & n.1

(5th Cir. 1994) (plain, reversible error for district court to

sentence defendant to pay restitution “in a payment schedule as

determined by the U.S. Probation Office” (internal quotation marks

omitted)).

     Accordingly, the judgment of sentence is VACATED, and this

matter is REMANDED for resentencing as to restitution.

                                        VACATED and REMANDED

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