Court Opinion

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UNPUBLISHED

                   UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                       FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                             No. 04-5064

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                              Plaintiff - Appellee,

          versus

TERRY NATHANIAL KEITH,

                                             Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Baltimore. Richard D. Bennett, District Judge. (CR-
03-568-RDB)

Submitted:   April 8, 2005                 Decided:   April 26, 2005

Before TRAXLER, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by unpublished per
curiam opinion.

Ricardo Daniel Zwaig, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Ellicott
City, Maryland, for Appellant.   Thomas Michael DiBiagio, United
States Attorney, Harry Mason Gruber, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES
ATTORNEY, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:

            Terry Nathanial Keith pled guilty on August 26, 2004, to

possession of a firearm after conviction of a felony, in violation

of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (2000).              The district court sentenced

Keith on November 19, 2004, over his objection based on Blakely v.

Washington, 124 S. Ct. 2531 (2004), to fifty-seven months of

imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release.

The district court also specified an alternative sentence of forty-

eight     months     of   imprisonment        pursuant    to   this    court’s

recommendation in United States v. Hammoud, 378 F.3d 426 (4th Cir.

2004) (order), opinion issued by 381 F.3d 316, 353-54 (4th Cir.

2004) (en banc), cert. granted and judgment vacated, 125 S. Ct.

1051 (2005).

            Keith appealed, challenging the constitutionality of the

federal sentencing scheme in light of the Supreme Court’s decision

in Blakely v. Washington, 124 S. Ct. 2531 (2004).*              The case was

held in abeyance pending the decision in United States v. Booker,

125 S. Ct. 738 (2005).         That opinion has now issued, and applies

the   Court’s      reasoning   in   Blakely    to   the   federal   sentencing

guidelines.

            Keith now moves for an expedited remand of this case to

the district court to allow implementation of the alternative

      *
      He also challenged the amount of credit given him for time
spent in state custody, but has now withdrawn that claim as
premature.

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sentence previously announced by the district court, a motion which

is unopposed by the Government.     We grant the motion to allow the

district court to reconsider Keith’s sentence in light of the

Booker decision.     Therefore, we affirm his conviction, vacate the

sentence   imposed    by   the   district   court,   and   remand   for

reconsideration of the sentence.      We dispense with oral argument

because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in

the materials before the court and argument would not aid the

decisional process.

                                                     AFFIRMED IN PART,
                                         VACATED IN PART, AND REMANDED

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