Court Opinion

ID: 8652568
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-24 21:07:21.525704+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:56:35.789654
License: Public Domain

ORDER
Lisa Toney was convicted of federal crimes, including credit-card fraud, after *638she and her boyfriend obtained fraudulent credit cards in her husband’s name and killed him with a mail bomb after he found out. Toney initially was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to pay $141,942 in mandatory restitution, but her case was on direct appeal when the Supreme Court decided United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), and in light of that decision we remanded for resentencing. See United States v. Toney, 177 Fed.Appx. 486 (7th Cir.2006). On remand the district court lowered To-ney’s overall term of imprisonment to 300 months but otherwise reinstated the judgment, including the order of restitution. Toney appeals again, this time arguing that the district court erroneously ordered her to pay the restitution immediately instead of setting payment schedules for her terms of imprisonment and supervised release.
Because Toney did not object in the district court to the lack of a payment schedule, we review only for plain error. United States v. Thigpen, 456 F.3d 766, 771 (7th Cir.2006). Toney relies on this court’s holdings in Thigpen, United States v. Pandiello, 184 F.3d 682 (7th Cir.1999), and United States v. Mohammad, 53 F.3d 1426 (7th Cir.1995), to argue that the failure to set a payment schedule was plain error. But after briefing in this case concluded, we overruled those cases in United States v. Sawyer, 521 F.3d 792, 798-99 (7th Cir.2008). After Sawyer, payments during incarceration should be handled through the Bureau of Prisons, not set by the district court. Id. at 795-96. So the district court did not err at all by not setting a payment schedule for the term of imprisonment. It was error for the district court not to set a payment schedule for Toney’s term of supervised release, see 18 U.S.C. § 3664(f)(2), but that error was not plain. See Sawyer, 521 F.3d at 798-99.
AFFIRMED.