USA v. Julio Joseph, No. 07-15845 (11th Cir. 2008)
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[DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 07-15845 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ FILED U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AUGUST 14, 2008 THOMAS K. KAHN CLERK D. C. Docket No. 05-20467-CR-PAS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus JULIO JOSEPH, Defendant-Appellant. ________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida _________________________ (August 14, 2008) Before BIRCH, DUBINA and CARNES, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Julio Joseph appeals his 168-month sentence for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Joseph contends that the district court erred by finding that his prior Florida conviction for carrying a concealed weapon was a violent felony for purposes of enhancing his sentence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1 (Nov. 2004) because: (1) the offense was not inherently dangerous or violent; (2) in Florida, a person may carry a concealed weapon if he has a license; (3) the Florida statute does not require proof that the person intended to use the concealed weapon for violent purposes; and (4) carrying a concealed weapon is more like a felon-in-possession crime, which is not a violent crime, than the offenses enumerated in the career offender provision. We review de novo the district court s application of the guidelines and its factfindings only for clear error. United States v. Lee, 427 F.3d 881, 892 (11th Cir. 2005). A defendant is classified as a career offender under § 4B1.1(a) if he has at least two prior felony convictions for crimes of violence. U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1(a). The term crime of violence is defined in § 4B1.2(a). In United States v. Gilbert, 138 F.3d 1371 (11th Cir. 1998), abrogated by Begay v. United States, ___U.S.___, 128 S. Ct. 1581 (2008), we held that carrying a concealed weapon in violation of Florida law is a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(1). 1 Id. at 1372. In 1 The guideline we referred to as U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(1) in Gilbert was listed as § 4B1.2(a) under the 2004 version of the guidelines, which apply to the instant case. 2 June 2008, however, this Court decided that Gilbert had been abrogated by the Supreme Court s decision in Begay and held that the Florida offense of carrying a concealed weapon Joseph s prior conviction at issue was not a crime of violence under the guidelines. United States v. Archer, ___F.3d___, No. 0711488, 2008 WL 2521969, at *1, *4 (11th Cir. June 26, 2008). Joseph was sentenced as a career offender based on the district court s finding that his prior Florida conviction for carrying a concealed weapon was a crime of violence for the purposes of § 4B1.1(a). That finding was entirely consistent with the law of this circuit at the time. The law having changed, however, the sentence must be vacated and the case remanded for resentencing in light of our recent Archer decision.2 VACATED AND REMANDED. 2 Joseph also contends that the district court violated his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by increasing his sentence based on a fact not admitted or found by the jury, and that his sentence was substantively unreasonable. However, because we have vacated Joseph s sentence, we need not address those issues. 3
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