RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Anthony Dawson pleaded guilty to six counts of bank robbery in violation of 18 Ú.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) and one count of possession and use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). Mr. Dawson had also committed numerous other uncharged robberies and had an extensive record of past criminal conduct. The district court departed upward from the otherwise applicable sentencing range. Mr. Dawson was sentenced to 360 months of imprisonment for the six bank robberies to which he pleaded guilty, an additional mandatory consecutive sentence of sixty months on the firearm count, five years of supervised release, and restitution in the amount of $17,319.00. Mr. Dawson appeals the district court’s upward departure. After reviewing the sentencing record, we believe that the district court erred in its methodology and imposed a sentence on Mr. Dawson that contravenes the Sentencing Guidelines. Accordingly, we remand this case for resen-tencing.
I
BACKGROUND
A. Facts
Mr. Dawson has a long and varied criminal history during which he has consistently committed theft offenses in order to finance his drug use. From April 25, 1991, to June 17, 1991, Mr. Dawson committed a series of bank robberies that encompassed three different states. He committed eight bank robberies in Indianapolis, Indiana, and he robbed three other banks in Ohio and Kentucky.1 Mr. Dawson managed to elude police despite the fact that he did not wear a disguise when he robbed the banks, that he left identifiable fingerprints on the counter of one bank, and that at least once he signed a deposit slip with his own name and left it at one of the banks that he robbed.
Believing that Mr. Dawson was going to be killed eventually, his aunt convinced him to surrender to authorities. Early in the morning of June 25, 1991, Mr. Dawson gave himself up to the FBI. He confessed committing seventeen robberies: eleven bank robberies (which were federal crimes) and six other robberies (which were state crimes) that had occurred either in business establishments or on the streets of Indianapolis.
On July 11,1991, Mr. Dawson was indicted on six counts of bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) and six counts of using or carrying a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence in violation of [459]*45918 U.S.C. § 924(c). These counts were all based on bank robberies that had occurred in Indianapolis. Mr. Dawson initially gave notice to the government that he would use an insanity defense at trial. However, on January 31, 1992, Mr. Dawson pleaded guilty to all six counts of bank robbery and to one count of the firearm offense.
B. District Court Proceedings
On April 10, 1992, the district court conducted a sentencing hearing. The Probation Office drafted a presentence report (PSR) on Mr. Dawson and determined that he had an adjusted offense level of 28, while his extensive past criminal conduct placed him in the highest criminal history category, Category VI. Thus, the applicable sentencing range was 140-175 months’ imprisonment. The Probation Office, however, recommended an upward departure because Mr. Dawson’s criminal history inadequately reflected the seriousness of his past criminal conduct and the likelihood of recidivism. Specifically, the recommendation noted that Mr. Dawson had been charged with only six of the numerous bank robberies to which he had confessed. Moreover, the PSR stated that the sixth charged robbery was not taken into consideration under § 3D1.4 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines’ multiple-count grouping provisions.2 Mr. Dawson had also confessed to six state robberies upon which he had yet to be charged; he had been convicted previously of three state felonies that had been consolidated for sentencing and thus did not receive full consideration under the Guidelines; and he also had three prior convictions that were too old for inclusion under the Guidelines. Additionally, at the sentencing hearing, the government argued for an enhancement based on the alleged extreme psychological injury to several bank tellers who were victims of Mr. Dawson’s trail of robberies.
At the sentencing hearing, Mr. Dawson restated his written objections to all of the recommendations for upward departure contained in the PSR, as well as the government’s attempt to show that the bank tellers suffered from extreme psychological injury. Mr. Dawson contended that his prior criminal history was adequately taken into account by the provisions of the Sentencing Guidelines. He argued that a criminal history category of VI is such a serious designation that it did adequately reflect his past criminal conduct. Moreover, Mr. Dawson argued that neither the charged nor the uncharged robberies could serve to enhance his sentence because the multiple-count grouping provisions of the Sentencing Guidelines already contemplate the commission of multiple offenses and, therefore, no upward departure was justified.
The district court, however, agreed with the recommendation in the PSR that an upward departure was appropriate. The district court prefaced Mr. Dawson’s sentencing hearing by stating that his criminal history category, as calculated under the Sentencing Guidelines, was inadequate. Tr. at 78. The court found that the calculated sentencing range did not fully reflect Mr. Dawson’s past criminal conduct or his likelihood of recidivism. In its departure calculations, the court did not rely upon the six state robbery confessions, the three old convictions, or the alleged extreme psychological injury of the bank tellers. Instead, the court departed upward on the basis of the three prior state convictions that had been consolidated for sentencing, on the five uncharged federal bank robberies, and on the sixth charged bank robbery that allegedly was not addressed under § 3D1.4. In making the upward departure, the court specifically stated that
there have been prior sentences that were not used in computing the criminal history [460]*460category with reference to the consolidated state counts, and there is prior similar adult criminal conduct not resulting in a criminal conviction that also warrant an upward departure.
Tr. at 78-79. Because Mr. Dawson already qualified for the highest criminal history category, Category VI, any upward departure based upon the inadequacy of the criminal history computation had to be calculated outside the sentencing table. See U.S.S.G. § 4A1.3 (stating that in certain egregious cases, “a decision above the guideline range for a defendant with a Category VI criminal history may be warranted”).
With regard to the three prior offenses consolidated for sentencing, the district court noted that, had they not been .consolidated, six extra criminal history points would have been assessed against Mr. Dawson. The court departed upward by applying the six points to Mr. Dawson’s criminal history. However, because he was already in the highest criminal history category, the court increased his sentencing range fifteen percent for each category that it departed upward beyond Category VI. See United States v.
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RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Anthony Dawson pleaded guilty to six counts of bank robbery in violation of 18 Ú.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) and one count of possession and use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). Mr. Dawson had also committed numerous other uncharged robberies and had an extensive record of past criminal conduct. The district court departed upward from the otherwise applicable sentencing range. Mr. Dawson was sentenced to 360 months of imprisonment for the six bank robberies to which he pleaded guilty, an additional mandatory consecutive sentence of sixty months on the firearm count, five years of supervised release, and restitution in the amount of $17,319.00. Mr. Dawson appeals the district court’s upward departure. After reviewing the sentencing record, we believe that the district court erred in its methodology and imposed a sentence on Mr. Dawson that contravenes the Sentencing Guidelines. Accordingly, we remand this case for resen-tencing.
I
BACKGROUND
A. Facts
Mr. Dawson has a long and varied criminal history during which he has consistently committed theft offenses in order to finance his drug use. From April 25, 1991, to June 17, 1991, Mr. Dawson committed a series of bank robberies that encompassed three different states. He committed eight bank robberies in Indianapolis, Indiana, and he robbed three other banks in Ohio and Kentucky.1 Mr. Dawson managed to elude police despite the fact that he did not wear a disguise when he robbed the banks, that he left identifiable fingerprints on the counter of one bank, and that at least once he signed a deposit slip with his own name and left it at one of the banks that he robbed.
Believing that Mr. Dawson was going to be killed eventually, his aunt convinced him to surrender to authorities. Early in the morning of June 25, 1991, Mr. Dawson gave himself up to the FBI. He confessed committing seventeen robberies: eleven bank robberies (which were federal crimes) and six other robberies (which were state crimes) that had occurred either in business establishments or on the streets of Indianapolis.
On July 11,1991, Mr. Dawson was indicted on six counts of bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) and six counts of using or carrying a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence in violation of [459]*45918 U.S.C. § 924(c). These counts were all based on bank robberies that had occurred in Indianapolis. Mr. Dawson initially gave notice to the government that he would use an insanity defense at trial. However, on January 31, 1992, Mr. Dawson pleaded guilty to all six counts of bank robbery and to one count of the firearm offense.
B. District Court Proceedings
On April 10, 1992, the district court conducted a sentencing hearing. The Probation Office drafted a presentence report (PSR) on Mr. Dawson and determined that he had an adjusted offense level of 28, while his extensive past criminal conduct placed him in the highest criminal history category, Category VI. Thus, the applicable sentencing range was 140-175 months’ imprisonment. The Probation Office, however, recommended an upward departure because Mr. Dawson’s criminal history inadequately reflected the seriousness of his past criminal conduct and the likelihood of recidivism. Specifically, the recommendation noted that Mr. Dawson had been charged with only six of the numerous bank robberies to which he had confessed. Moreover, the PSR stated that the sixth charged robbery was not taken into consideration under § 3D1.4 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines’ multiple-count grouping provisions.2 Mr. Dawson had also confessed to six state robberies upon which he had yet to be charged; he had been convicted previously of three state felonies that had been consolidated for sentencing and thus did not receive full consideration under the Guidelines; and he also had three prior convictions that were too old for inclusion under the Guidelines. Additionally, at the sentencing hearing, the government argued for an enhancement based on the alleged extreme psychological injury to several bank tellers who were victims of Mr. Dawson’s trail of robberies.
At the sentencing hearing, Mr. Dawson restated his written objections to all of the recommendations for upward departure contained in the PSR, as well as the government’s attempt to show that the bank tellers suffered from extreme psychological injury. Mr. Dawson contended that his prior criminal history was adequately taken into account by the provisions of the Sentencing Guidelines. He argued that a criminal history category of VI is such a serious designation that it did adequately reflect his past criminal conduct. Moreover, Mr. Dawson argued that neither the charged nor the uncharged robberies could serve to enhance his sentence because the multiple-count grouping provisions of the Sentencing Guidelines already contemplate the commission of multiple offenses and, therefore, no upward departure was justified.
The district court, however, agreed with the recommendation in the PSR that an upward departure was appropriate. The district court prefaced Mr. Dawson’s sentencing hearing by stating that his criminal history category, as calculated under the Sentencing Guidelines, was inadequate. Tr. at 78. The court found that the calculated sentencing range did not fully reflect Mr. Dawson’s past criminal conduct or his likelihood of recidivism. In its departure calculations, the court did not rely upon the six state robbery confessions, the three old convictions, or the alleged extreme psychological injury of the bank tellers. Instead, the court departed upward on the basis of the three prior state convictions that had been consolidated for sentencing, on the five uncharged federal bank robberies, and on the sixth charged bank robbery that allegedly was not addressed under § 3D1.4. In making the upward departure, the court specifically stated that
there have been prior sentences that were not used in computing the criminal history [460]*460category with reference to the consolidated state counts, and there is prior similar adult criminal conduct not resulting in a criminal conviction that also warrant an upward departure.
Tr. at 78-79. Because Mr. Dawson already qualified for the highest criminal history category, Category VI, any upward departure based upon the inadequacy of the criminal history computation had to be calculated outside the sentencing table. See U.S.S.G. § 4A1.3 (stating that in certain egregious cases, “a decision above the guideline range for a defendant with a Category VI criminal history may be warranted”).
With regard to the three prior offenses consolidated for sentencing, the district court noted that, had they not been .consolidated, six extra criminal history points would have been assessed against Mr. Dawson. The court departed upward by applying the six points to Mr. Dawson’s criminal history. However, because he was already in the highest criminal history category, the court increased his sentencing range fifteen percent for each category that it departed upward beyond Category VI. See United States v. Schmude, 901 F.2d 555 (7th Cir. 1990).3 The court found that this method resulted “in a two-level increase above the six.” Tr. at 79.
The court further departed upward based on both the limitations of the multiple-count grouping provision in the Guidelines and the five uncharged bank robberies that Mr. Dawson had admitted committing. Although Mr. Dawson had pleaded guilty to six bank robberies, § 3D1.4, which increases the offense level for grouped offenses, only provides for an increase of five levels. Thus, the court determined that the sixth bank robbery had not been taken into account under the grouping provision. The court departed upward based on the sixth bank robbery count. Additionally, the court decided to depart upward again based on the five uncharged federal bank robberies. Tr. at 80. The court then apparently miscounted the robberies it was basing departure upon,4 and instead of adding six units to the five already provided for under the grouping provision, it added the six additional units to the gross number (six) of charged robberies.5 The court increased Mi’. Dawson’s offense level by twelve. This miscalculation resulted in a [461]*461combined adjusted offense level of 37. Mr. Dawson was, however, granted a two-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility. All of these calculations produced an offense level of 35.
Finally, the court reached a sentencing range of 360 months to life by calculating an offense level of 35 and by dropping down two additional levels in Criminal History Category VI by virtue of the fifteen percent extrapolation method proposed in Schmude,6 The court sentenced Mr. Dawson to 360 months’ incarceration on the charged bank robberies, a mandatory consecutive term of sixty months’ incarceration for the firearm offense, restitution in the amount of $17,319 to be paid to the two victimized banks, and five years of supervised release.7
On appeal, Mr. Dawson contends that the district court erred in two ways. First, he argues that the district court erred when it departed upward by adding offense levels based on the five uncharged bank robberies to which he confessed. Second, he contends that an upward departure that raises the applicable sentencing range from 140-175 months to 360 months to life is unreasonable and is unsupported by the facts.
II
ANALYSIS
Pursuant to the jurisdiction granted this court under the Sentencing Reform Act, we review sentences for violations of law and for misapplications of the Sentencing Guidelines. See 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) and (e). A sentence is to be imposed within the applicable guideline range “unless the [sentencing] court finds that there exists an aggravating or mitigating circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines that should result in a sentence different from that described.” 18 U.S.C. § 3553(b). In reviewing a court’s decision to depart upward, we review de novo “whether a district court’s stated grounds for departure may be relied on to justify the departure.” United States v. Willey, 985 F.2d 1342, 1349 (7th Cir.1993).
Mr. Dawson concedes that the district court correctly departed upward based upon the three prior state offenses that had been consolidated for sentencing; he does not appeal the departure premised on those grounds^ Moreover, he is satisfied that the district court appropriately used the Schmtide analysis to extrapolate from the Guidelines and go beyond Criminal History Category VI. Mr. Dawson does, however, urge us to find that the district court departed upward on improper grounds by using the sixth charged bank robbery and the five uncharged bank robberies to elevate his adjusted offense level. Instead, Mr. Dawson contends, the upward departure should have been premised upon additions to his criminal history category.
A. Upward Departure by Adding the Sixth Charged Bank Robbery in the Multiple-Count Analysis
Mr. Dawson argues that the sixth charged robbery should not have been the basis for any upward departure because the Commentary to the multiple-count grouping provision, § 3D1.4, states that “[i]nasmuch as the maximum increase provided in the guideline is five levels, departure would be warranted in the unusual case where the additional offenses resulted in a total of significantly more than five Units.” § 3D1.4, Background Commentary. Mr. Dawson contends that six robberies is not significantly more than five; therefore, the sixth robbery is adequately addressed by the guideline and the district court should not have departed upward based on this count.
The government, on the other hand, argues that the sixth charged and the five uncharged bank robberies together constitute an amount significantly more than five [462]*462units and, under § 3D1.4 were correctly used to depart upward. Otherwise, the government avers, “counting only five of the eleven federally based offenses covers less than one-half of the identified robberies.” Appellee’s Br. at 15.
The district court believed that the sixth charged bank robbery was not considered in the guideline computation under § 3D1.4. The court specifically stated that, “[bjecause of the grouping arrangements, we had six bank robberies that were dropped to five.” Tr. at 80. Thus, the court determined that an upward departure based upon the sixth bank robbery count was appropriate. We respectfully disagree.
Under the grouping provisions of the Guidelines, counts may be grouped together and a combined offense level will be calculated in accordance with § 3D1.4. Under that section, as more units are included, there is an arithmetic increase in offense levels.8 As noted above, the Background Commentary to § 3D 1.4 states that “[ijnasmuch as the maximum increase provided in the guidelines is 5 levels, departure would be warranted in the unusual case where the additional offenses resulted in a total of significantly more than 5 Units.” However, this language should not be construed to mean that § 3D1.4 does not take into account an offense level increase for a sixth offense unit. On the contrary, the offense level is increased by five when six units are included in the calculation. Section 3D1.4 provides that for 3 Jé to 5 units, the offense level is increased 4 levels; similarly, for more than 5 units, the offense level is increased by 5. Thus, the section does not ignore or discount a sixth charged offense. See United States v. Pearson, 911 F.2d 186, 190 (9th Cir.1990) (stating that under § 3D1.4, defendant’s first six offenses were taken into account while the seventh and eighth were not considered in the guideline prior to departure); United States v. Chase, 894 F.2d 488, 491 (1st Cir.1990) (noting that § 3D1.4 encompasses six counts of bank robbery, but upward departure necessary where defendant had nine additional counts to which he had pleaded guilty).
The district court may have misconstrued this section because the amount of increase does not correspond exactly to the number of units considered. However, the Sentencing Commission created this disparity by providing that no increase in offense level is allowed for the first unit; increases in offense level begin only when one and a half units have been assessed. Thus, § 3D1.4 does take into account six charged offenses and the district court engaged in impermissible double-counting when it departed upward based upon Mr. Dawson’s sixth charged bank robbery.
B. Raising the Offense Level by Including Nonconvicted Criminal Conduct in the Multiple-Count Sentencing Calculation
When he surrendered to the FBI, Mr. Dawson confessed to five additional federal bank robberies. After hearing testimony from an FBI agent regarding these additional crimes and after reviewing the PSR, the district court decided to depart upward from the Guidelines. The district court prefaced its upward departure by stating that “there is prior similar adult criminal conduct not resulting in a criminal conviction that also warrant an upward departure.” Tr. at 79. The court then took these five robberies, gave a value of one unit to each of them, and added them to the units already calculated under the multiple-count grouping provision, § 3D1.4.9 The district court did not explain why it chose to feed the five uncharged of[463]*463fenses back into the multiple-count grouping provision instead of departing upward in the criminal history category.10 This method of upward departure raised Mr. Dawson’s offense level significantly.
Mr. Dawson believes that the court should not have departed upward by counting the five uncharged federal bank robberies in the multiple-count grouping provision, effectively increasing his offense level one for one with the uncharged offenses rather than elevating his criminal history. Mr. Dawson argues that § 3D1.4 may only be used for crimes for which a defendant has been convicted; it cannot be used to depart upward from the Guidelines’ sentencing range on the basis of unconvicted offenses. Mr. Dawson relies on the prefatory language in the Introductory Commentary to the Multiple Counts part of the Sentencing Guidelines. The Commentary states that “[t]his Part provides rules for determining a single offense level that encompasses all the counts of which the defendant is convicted.” U.S.S.G. Section 3, Part D-Multiple Counts, Introductory Commentary. Moreover, had the district court used these additional crimes to depart upward in his criminal history category, Mr. Dawson claims that the court should have applied the Schmude analysis to extrapolate beyond Category VI as it did for the consolidated state crimes. Appellant’s Br. at 12.
The government contends, however, that the multiple-counts section of the Sentencing Guidelines does not specifically prohibit consideration of unconvicted criminal offenses. The government argues that the application of § 3D1.4 is not restricted to offenses of conviction. The government contends that any contrary interpretation would eviscerate § 4A1.3(e) which allows upward departure if the criminal history category does not adequately take into account prior similar adult criminal conduct not resulting in a criminal conviction.
The government’s argument misses the focal point of Mr. Dawson’s appeal. Mr. Dawson is not arguing that unconvicted conduct can never be the basis for an upward departure; on the contrary, Mr. Dawson contends that the district court could have used his five additional robberies to depart upward in his criminal history category. Mr. Dawson argues only that in these circumstances an upward departure in his offense level based upon § 3D1.4 is improper. We agree.
Mr. Dawson’s offense level should not have been raised by the inclusion of unconvicted offenses in the multiple-count grouping provision. The government argues that in United States v. Chase, 894 F.2d 488 (1st Cir. 1990), the court approved of an offense level elevation based upon nine additional robberies excluded from consideration under § 3D1.4. Chase is easily distinguishable from the situation that confronts this court. In Chase, fifteen counts of bank robbery were included in the indictment and the defendant pleaded guilty to all fifteen. Thus, the sentencing court appropriately included those counts in the § 3D1.4 analysis. By contrast, Mr. Dawson merely confessed to committing five other robberies; he was never charged with the offenses and he never pleaded guilty to them. Had Mr. Dawson stipulated to commission of the five additional robberies in his guilty plea, our decision would be different.11 However, Mr. Daw[464]*464son’s guilty plea contained no stipulations regarding the uncharged robberies.
It is certainly true that some unconvicted conduct may be used to elevate a defendant’s offense level. Under § lB1.3(a)(2), offense conduct and adjustments to the offense level are determined “solely with respect to offenses of a character for which § 3D1.2(d) would require grouping of multiple counts, all such acts and omissions that were part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan as the offense of conviction....” We have interpreted this section to mean
that when the Guidelines provide tables that cumulate the amount sold or stolen, any acts that “were part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan as the offense of conviction” should be included in the computation of the amount on which the offense level depends, whether or not the defendant was convicted of selling or stealing these additional amounts.
United States v. White, 888 F.2d 490, 497 (7th Cir.1989) (quoting U.S.S.G. § lB1.3(a)(2)). The cross-reference to the multiple-count grouping provision, therefore, is designed to encompass only particular offenses of a character for which the multiple-count rules would require grouping. These are acts for which the Guidelines, for the most part, base an offense level on quantity. See United States v. Atterson, 926 F.2d 649, 660 (7th Cir.) (stating that “when the Guidelines provide tables that cumulate the amount sold or stolen,” acts that are part of the same course of conduct as the conviction are to be included in the calculation of the offense level, without reference to conviction) (citing White, 888 F.2d at 497), cert. denied sub nom. Laurelez v. United States, — U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 2909, 115 L.Ed.2d 1072 (1991); see also U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3, Background.12 As Chief Judge Breyer of the First Circuit has noted, other crimes for which sentencing is not based on fungible quantities and for which a defendant has not been convicted, such as murder or bank robbery, are not included in the calculation of the offense level “unless the government separately charges and obtains conviction for these acts.” United States v. Blanco, 888 F.2d 907, 911 (1st Cir.1989) (noting with approval the decision in White); see also § 3D 1.2(d) (listing offenses that are excluded from grouping, such as robbery).
In sum, the district court here apparently deemed Mr. Dawson’s five uncharged bank robberies as demonstrating the inadequacy of Mr. Dawson’s criminal history category.13 However, instead of departing upward by elevating further the criminal history category, the district court departed upward in offense levels. While offense level adjustments may be made under § IB 1.3 for certain types of offenses, this circuit’s decision in White, confirmed by the First Circuit’s decision in Blanco, establishes that use of this approach for bank robbery offenses is not contemplated by the Guidelines. Thus, the district court could not have premised its upward departure on this methodology.14
Finally, we note that neither the district court nor the government suggests that, [465]*465on this record, the sentence calculation can be justified as an upward departure based on U.S.S.G. § 5K2.0 (Policy Statement). This section provides for upward departure when an aggravating circumstance exists “relating to the manner, effect, or other characteristics of the offense” of a kind not contemplated by the guideline for the offense of conviction. United States v. Uccio, 940 F.2d 753, 759 (2d Cir.1991). However, the uncharged misconduct that constitutes the aggravating circumstance must be related to the offense of conviction. By its plain wording, § 5K2.0 is limited to consideration of acts that, though not shown by prior sentencing patterns to be “empirically important in relation to the particular offense [of conviction] ... may [nonetheless] infrequently occur in connection with a particular crime_” U.S.S.G. Ch. 1, pt. A(4)(b) at 6 (1991) (Policy Statement). It is also important to note that the Commission carefully specified the different ways in which misconduct not resulting in conviction could be taken into account in determining punishment. The Commission has identified the sort of uncharged conduct that ought to result in an offense level adjustment. Thus, only infrequently will there be circumstances in which offense level upward departures under § 5K2.0 will be appropriate. Id. This arrangement reflects, as Chief Judge Breyer pointed out in Blanco, a carefully tuned compromise between “charge offense” sentencing and “real offense” sentencing. 888 F.2d at 911.
We do not want to preclude prematurely the district court’s consideration of § 5K2.0 on remand. Nevertheless, we emphasize that, in order to justify the use of such a methodology, the district court must first find that enhancement of the criminal history category is not appropriate. The district court must also conclude that the uncharged offenses are related to the offenses of conviction. See United States v. Uccio, 917 F.2d 80, 86 (2d Cir.1990).15 Furthermore, if the district court decides to depart in this fashion, it must do so within the context of the guidelines. As Judge Kearse has noted:
[Sentencing judges [must] measure the extent of [§ 5K2.0] departures by reference to the penalties that would have been provided by the Guidelines if the misconduct at issue had resulted in a federal conviction, in order that “an act that need be proven only by a preponderance of evidence, ... [not] result in more punishment than would be called for if the act had been proven beyond a reasonable doubt and had resulted in conviction.”
Uccio, 940 F.2d at 759-60 (quoting United States v. Kim, 896 F.2d 678, 684 (2d Cir.1990)).
C. Remand for Resentencing
The district court erred in its methodology and we cannot be certain that these errors were harmless. The Supreme Court has stated that in these circumstances, remand for resentencing is necessary:
[T]he party challenging the sentence on appeal, although it bears the initial burden of showing that the district court relied upon an invalid factor at sentencing, does not have the additional burden of proving that the invalid factor was determinative in the sentencing decision. Rather, once the court of appeals has decided that the district court misapplied the Guidelines, a remand is appropriate unless the reviewing court concludes, on the record as a whole, that the error was harmless, i.e., that the error did not affect the district court’s selection of the sentence imposed.
Williams v. United States, — U.S. -, -, 112 S.Ct. 1112, 1120-21, 117 L.Ed.2d 341 (1992); see also United States v. Mount, 966 F.2d 262, 265 (7th Cir.1992) (quoting [466]*466Williams and stating that remand is appropriate unless error was harmless).
If the district court had not erred in its methodology, it may have reached a different sentence. In coming to this conclusion, we note that a sentencing court has latitude within the applicable sentencing range in which to identify an appropriate term of incarceration. Thus, we cannot state with certainty that had the district court not erred, it would have sentenced Mr. Dawson to the same term of imprisonment.
Conclusion
For the foregoing reasons, we remand this case to the district court for resentencing in accordance with this opinion.
Remanded for Resentencing.