Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2018-07-19 20:00:34.846092+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        JUL 19 2018
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                       No.    16-30211

                Plaintiff-Appellee,             D.C. No. 3:15-cr-00107-SI-1

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
JASON ANDREW DUNLAP,

                Defendant-Appellant.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                            for the District of Oregon
                   Michael H. Simon, District Judge, Presiding

                       Argued and Submitted July 10, 2018
                               Portland, Oregon

Before: WARDLAW and OWENS, Circuit Judges, and MÁRQUEZ,** District
Judge.

      Jason Andrew Dunlap (“Defendant”) appeals his sentence, arguing that the

district court miscalculated the applicable guideline range and erroneously

concluded it lacked authority to sentence Defendant below the statutory mandatory

minimum. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a).

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
              The Honorable Rosemary Márquez, United States District Judge for
the District of Arizona, sitting by designation.
We vacate and remand for resentencing in light of United States v. Reinhart, 893
F.3d 606 (9th Cir. 2018).

      The parties first addressed Reinhart in Rule 28(j) letters filed shortly before

oral argument. Defendant had previously conceded that the prior state conviction

charged in the Information triggered a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence

under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e). However, Reinhart constitutes an intervening change

in the law that may affect the analysis of this issue, and the parties agree that

remand is appropriate to allow the district court to evaluate in the first instance the

potential impact of Reinhart on the applicable statutory mandatory minimum.

Because we find that remand is appropriate in light of Reinhart, we decline to

address at this juncture the other issues raised in Defendant’s appeal.

      VACATED and REMANDED for resentencing.

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