United States v. Wheat

203 F. App'x 581

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• Decided: October 24, 2006
• Docket: 04-11101
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

PER CURIAM: *

In 2000, Orlando Demetrius Wheat was convicted pursuant to a guilty plea of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to 27 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Wheat appeals the sentence imposed following the revocation of his supervised release.

Citing Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S.Ct. 2531, 159 L.Ed.2d 403 (2004), and United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), Wheat complains that the 27-month term of imprisonment imposed for his conviction and the 14-month term of imprisonment imposed for his violation of supervised release exceeded in the aggregate the 33-month total term of imprisonment allowed under the United States Sentencing Guidelines for his initial conviction based on the facts alleged in his indictment and admitted by him. Wheat argues as a result that the district court was authorized to impose no more than a six-month term of imprisonment upon revocation of his supervised release unless the facts pertaining to his release violations were alleged in an indictment and found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. Wheat contends that the alleged Booker violation in his case cannot be cured by application of Booker’s remedial advisory guidelines system because his initial sentence is final and because it would violate due process and ex post facto laws. Wheat’s arguments lack merit. See United States v. Alfaro-Hernandez, 453 F.3d 280, 281-82 (5th Cir.2006); United States v. Hinson, 429 F.3d 114, 116-19 (5th Cir. 2005), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 126 S.Ct. 1804, 164 L.Ed.2d 540 (2006).

The 14-month term of imprisonment imposed upon revocation of Wheat’s supervised release did not exceed the statutory maximum term of imprisonment that the district court could have imposed. See 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3). Accordingly, Wheat’s sentence upon revocation was neither “unreasonable” nor “plainly unreasonable.” See Hinson, 429 F.3d at 120.

AFFIRMED.

* Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.