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Date Created: 2023-10-17 00:00:27.28025+00
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Case: 23-30233        Document: 00516932634             Page: 1      Date Filed: 10/16/2023

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

                                      No. 23-30233                                    FILED
                                    Summary Calendar                           October 16, 2023
                                    ____________                                 Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                      Clerk
   United States of America,

                                                                      Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                            versus

   Donald Leonard Pollard, Jr.,

                                              Defendant—Appellant.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Western District of Louisiana
                              USDC No. 3:21-CR-251-1
                     ______________________________

   Before King, Haynes, and Graves, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Donald Leonard Pollard, Jr., pleaded guilty to count 3 of a five-count
   indictment charging him with distribution of methamphetamine, and he was
   sentenced to a 300-month term of imprisonment and to a five-year period of
   supervised release.

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 23-30233     Document: 00516932634           Page: 2   Date Filed: 10/16/2023

                                    No. 23-30233

          At sentencing, the district court overruled Pollard’s objection to
   consideration of the conduct underlying the dismissed counts 1, 2, 4, and 5
   as relevant conduct in determining the drug quantity. Pollard was ultimately
   sentenced as a career offender under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1, and he has appealed
   his sentence.
          Pollard contends that the district court erred in its relevant-conduct
   finding. We have not reached this question because any error was harmless.
   Pollard’s offense level was determined on the basis of his career-offender
   designation, which did not depend upon the court’s relevant conduct finding.
   See United States v. Bams, 858 F.3d 937, 948-49 (5th Cir. 2017). The
   judgment is AFFIRMED.
          The case is REMANDED to the district court for the limited
   purposed of correcting the judgment to list the correct statute of conviction.
   See Fed. R. Crim. P. 36; see also 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A)(viii).

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