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13-3468-cr
United States v. Carmona

                                UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

                                     SUMMARY ORDER
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        At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the
Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 22nd
day of April, two thousand fifteen.

PRESENT:           GUIDO CALABRESI,
                   JOSÉ A. CABRANES,
                   CHRISTOPHER F. DRONEY,
                                Circuit Judges.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                   Appellee,

                           v.                                        No. 13-3468-cr

EVELIO A. CARMONA,

                   Defendant-Appellant.

FOR EVELIO A. CARMONA:                                Lee A. Ginsberg, Freeman, Nooter &
                                                      Ginsberg, New York, NY.

FOR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:                         Amy Busa, Tiana A. Demas, Assistant United
                                                      States Attorneys, for Loretta E. Lynch, United
                                                      States Attorney for the Eastern District of
                                                      New York, Brooklyn, NY.

       Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New
York (Eric N. Vitaliano, Judge).
        UPON DUE CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED,
ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the cause is REMANDED for the limited purpose of
allowing the District Court to determine the term of supervised release allowed under 18 U.S.C.
§ 3583(b)(1) and U.S.S.G. § 5D1.2(a)(1), adjust the sentence as it deems appropriate, and articulate
the reasons for its sentence.

         Defendant Evelio A. Carmona appeals from the District Court’s September 10, 2013
judgment convicting him, after a guilty plea, of one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm
after having been convicted of three prior violent felonies, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and
924(e)(1), and sentencing him principally to 180 months’ imprisonment and five years’ supervised
release. Carmona challenges only the term of supervised release on appeal. We assume the parties’
familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural history of the case, and the issues on appeal.

       We review criminal sentences for “reasonableness” under a deferential abuse-of-discretion
standard. United States v. Cavera, 550 F.3d 180, 187–88 (2d Cir. 2008) (en banc). A sentence is
procedurally unreasonable if the district court “fails to calculate (or improperly calculates) the
Sentencing Guidelines range, treats the Sentencing Guidelines as mandatory, fails to consider the
§ 3553(a) factors, selects a sentence based on clearly erroneous facts, or fails adequately to explain
the chosen sentence.” United States v. Chu, 714 F.3d 742, 746 (2d Cir. 2013) (internal quotation marks
omitted).

        Carmona argues, and the Government agrees, that the cause should be remanded for
resentencing because the Presentence Investigation Report erroneously stated that five years is the
minimum term of supervised release for Carmona’s offense when, in fact, five years is the maximum
term. See 18 U.S.C. § 3583(b)(1). Although not entirely clear from the record, it appears that the
District Court relied on this erroneous statement of the law in sentencing Carmona. Accordingly, a
limited remand is appropriate for the District Court to determine the term of supervised release
allowed under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(b)(1) and U.S.S.G. § 5D1.2(a)(1), adjust the sentence as it deems
appropriate, and articulate the reasons for its sentence.

                                          CONCLUSION

         For the reasons stated above, we REMAND the cause for the limited purpose of allowing
the District Court to determine the term of supervised release allowed under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(b)(1)
and U.S.S.G. § 5D1.2(a)(1), adjust the sentence as it deems appropriate, and articulate the reasons
for its sentence.

                                                       FOR THE COURT:
                                                       Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk

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