Court Opinion

ID: 4305875
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2018-08-21 20:00:27.292885+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:37:28.289044
License: Public Domain

1                              NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
 2
 3                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       AUG 21 2018
 4                                                                         MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                            U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
 5                              FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
 6
     UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                       No.    17-30168

                     Plaintiff-Appellee,             D.C. No. 2:17-cr-00075-TSZ

      v.
                                                     MEMORANDUM*
     CHRIS YOUNG YOO, a.k.a. Chris Yoo,

                     Defendant-Appellant.
 7
 8                      Appeal from the United States District Court
 9                        for the Western District of Washington
10                       Thomas S. Zilly, District Judge, Presiding
11
12                              Submitted August 15, 2018**
13
14   Before:      FARRIS, BYBEE, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
15
16         Chris Young Yoo appeals from the district court’s judgment and challenges

17   the 108-month sentence imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for one count

18   of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and one count of making a false

           *
                  This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
     except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
           **
                  The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
     without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
 1   statement to the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001. We have

 2   jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we vacate and remand for resentencing.

 3         Yoo contends that the district court violated the Ex Post Facto Clause by

 4   applying an amended version of the Sentencing Guidelines that did not go into

 5   effect until after his offenses of conviction were complete. The government

 6   concedes that we must vacate Yoo’s sentence and remand for resentencing.

 7   Reviewing de novo, see United States v. Forrester, 616 F.3d 929, 934 (9th Cir.

 8   2010), we agree.

 9         The district court improperly concluded that the “the last date of the offense

10   of conviction” occurred after November 1, 2015. See U.S.S.G. § 1B1.11 cmt. n.2.

11   The wire fraud offense was “complete when the . . . wire [was] used”—on April

12   16, 2015. United States v. Blitz, 151 F.3d 1002, 1011 (9th Cir. 1998). Yoo’s

13   conduct after November 2015—while relevant to the sentencing range within a

14   particular version of the Guidelines—is immaterial to which version applies for ex

15   post facto purposes. See U.S.S.G. § 1B1.11 cmt. n.2; Forrester, 616 F.3d at 946-

16   48. Because the district court applied a version of the Guidelines that resulted in a

17   higher sentencing range than the version of the Guidelines that applied on the date

18   Yoo’s offenses of conviction were complete, we must vacate and remand for

19   resentencing. See Peugh v. United States, 569 U.S. 530, 544 (2013); United States

20   v. Thomsen, 830 F.3d 1049, 1070-71 (9th Cir. 2016). On remand, the district court

                                               2                                    17-30168
1   shall apply the 2014 Guidelines.

2         VACATED and REMANDED for resentencing.

                                       3           17-30168