Court Opinion

ID: 8683289
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-25 06:29:54.495663+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:57:32.212615
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SUMMARY ORDER
In April 2015, defendant-appellant Sean Robinson pled guilty to conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951. On August 14, 2015, the district court entered judgment sentencing him to 240 months’ imprisonment and ordering him to pay $1,106,000 in restitution to specified robbery victims who suffered losses as a result of the charged conspiracy. Robinson challenges the restitution order on the grounds that the restitution amount included losses caused by two robberies for which he was not charged and with which he did not admit involvement. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, procedural history, and issues on appeal.
In October 2014, a grand jury indicted Robinson and other, defendants for, inter alia, a Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy, and charged, as overt acts in Count One, seven robberies committed on specified dates in specified locations. Robinson was named as participating in the first six overt acts but not the seventh, the robbery of a Cartier jewelry store in New York City on January 30, 2014 (the “Cartier robbery”). In April 2015, he pled guilty to the conspiracy count and agreed to a Guidelines calculation of the offense level that specifically considered the first six robberies but not the Cartier robbery.
The presentence report recommended a sentence of 240 months and a restitution amount of $1,106,000 on account of losses suffered in six robberies: five of the seven listed in the conspiracy count, including the Cartier robbery, as well as an August 3, 2013 robbery of Schwarzschild’s Jewelers in Richmond, Virginia (the “Schwarz-schild robbery”), a robbery that was not described in the indictment at all. The losses from the Cartier robbery and the Schwarzschild robbery were $700,000 and $100,000, respectively. Robinson did not submit any objections to the restitution recommendation or findings in the presen-tenee report, nor did he raise any restitution objections in his sentencing submissions.
*734At sentencing, Robinson confirmed he had no objections to the presentence report or to the restitution amount proposed by the court. The court sentenced him to 240 months’ imprisonment and ordered him to pay $1,106,000 in restitution to the six victims identified in the presentence report. The judgment of conviction was filed on August 14, 2015. This appeal followed.
On December 21, 2016, a motions panel dismissed Robinson’s appeal with respect to the imprisonment term- on waiver grounds, but declined to summarily affirm the appeal with respect to restitution. Accordingly, only the restitution portion of the district court’s judgment is before us now.
“[W]here, as here, a defendant fails to object to the restitution order at the time of sentencing, our review is for plain error.” United States v. Zangari, 677 F.3d 86, 91 (2d Cir. 2012); see also United States v. Boyd, 222 F.3d 47, 49 (2d Cir. 2000) (per curiam) (“Peck raised no objection, either in her sentencing memorandum or during the sentencing hearing, to paying full restitution.”). Plain error is error that (1) is plain, (2) affects substantial rights, and (3) seriously affects the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings. United States v. Bonilla, 618 F.3d 102, 111 (2d Cir. 2010).
We find no such error here. The pre-sentence report contained findings that (1) Robinson and other individuals conspired to commit robberies together in several states including New York, New Jersey, and Virginia; (2) co-conspirators committed the Schwarzschild robbery on August 3, 2013 and the Cartier robbery on January 30, 2014, both of which fell within the period of the conspiracy charged in Count One; (3) the conspiracy caused at least $1,106,000 in total losses to Schwarz-schild’s Jewelers, Cartier, and other victims; and (4) Schwarzschild’s Jewelers suffered $100,000 in losses and Cartier suffered $700,000 in losses. Robinson did not challenge these findings in his objections to the presentence report, in his sentencing submissions, or at the sentencing proceeding, even when the district court specifically asked if he had any objections to the report, The court implicitly (if not explicitly) adopted the report’s identification of restitution victims and loss amounts when it ordered Robinson to pay a total restitution amount of $1,106,000, the same number from the report, “to the victims listed at page 32 of the presen-tence report pro rata according to their losses.” App, 110. In light of these circumstances, even assuming there was error, the district court’s inclusion of the Cartier and Schwarzschild’s Jewelers losses in the restitution amount did not “seriously affect[] the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.” Bonilla, 618 F.3d at 111.
We have considered Robinson’s remaining arguments and find them to be without merit. Accordingly, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.