Court Opinion

ID: 9517691
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 00:29:03.983089+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:12:06.658664
License: Public Domain

SHEDD, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I agree that the district court erred and that Robinson must be resentenced because of this error. I write separately to note that at the time of the sentencing, United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), had (as Judge Traxler explains) clearly established “that the facts supporting a sentencing enhancement need not be alleged in the indictments to be used in the proper calculation of a defendant’s sentence.” Therefore, regardless of the reasonableness of any pre-Booker assumption on this point, there was no basis for the district court’s contrary sua sponte ruling in this case.