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Unpublished
Unpublished
No. 10-4226
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at New Bern.
Louise W. Flanagan,
District Judge. (7:07-cr-00107-FL-1)
Submitted:
September 8, 2011
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Marvin
challenge
the
enhancement
Maroquin-Bran
application
under
returns
of
to
this
court
sixteen-level
2L1.2(b)(1)(A)
of
the
to
sentencing
United
States
in United States v. Vann, No. 09-4298 (4th Cir. Oct. 11, 2011)
(en banc), we hold that Maroquin-Brans prior conviction does
not support application of the enhancement.
Accordingly, we
vacate
and
the
judgment
of
the
district
court
remand
for
resentencing.
I.
We
United
previously
States
circumstances
v.
considered
Maroquin-Bran,
leading
to
his
Maroquin-Brans
in
1989
which
we
California
case
in
described
the
conviction,
his
the
requirements
of
U.S.S.G.
After
2L1.2(b)(1)(A),
we
California
categorically
2L1.2(b)(1)(A).
statute
Health
a
&
drug
We
prohibits
Safety
trafficking
reasoned
two
Code
that
offenses:
11360(a)
offense
although
sale
of
the
was
under
not
California
marijuana
and
the
sixteen-level
sentencing
Accordingly,
we
examine
Shepard-approved
the
remanded
the
enhancement.
case
to
documents
the
Id.
district
and
218. *
at
court
determin[e]
to
the
did
willfully
and
unlawfully
transport,
import
sell,
furnish,
administer,
and
give
away,
and
indicated
that
Maroquin-Bran
pled
guilty
to
count
of
the
district
Maroquin-Bran
court
in
the
observed
that
conjunctive,
the
information
replacing
the
word
marijuana
and
thus
qualified
for
the
sixteen-level
enhancement.
II.
In
scenario.
Vann,
we
recently
confronted
similar
factual
plea
alone
provided
no
basis
to
the
defendants
(When
disjunctive,
a
any
statute
one
of
which
lists
several
constitutes
an
acts
in
the
offense,
the
the
abstract
conjunctive
of
judgment
to
avoid
and
uncertainty.).
compilation
of
case
Moreover,
records
the
simply
not
just
transportation
of
illegal
drugs.
Accordingly,
III.
For the foregoing reasons, we vacate the judgment of
the district court and remand the case for resentencing.