US v. Jason Poole, No. 08-4820 (4th Cir. 2009)
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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 08-4820 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff Appellee, v. JASON CONRAD POOLE, Defendant Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Greenbelt. Alexander Williams, Jr., District Judge. (8:96-cr-00238-AW-1) Submitted: May 19, 2009 Decided: June 18, 2009 Before MOTZ, TRAXLER, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Robert W. Biddle, C. Justin Brown, NATHANS & BIDDLE, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant. Rod J. Rosenstein, United States Attorney, Michele W. Sartori, Barbara S. Skalla, Assistant United States Attorneys, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. PER CURIAM: Jason Conrad Poole appeals an order of the district court reinstating his original sentence of 262 months imprisonment as directed in United States v. Poole, 531 F.3d 263 (4th Cir. 2008). We affirm. In Poole, we held that the district court improperly exercised jurisdiction over Poole s habeas corpus petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (2006). Id. at 274. Having found jurisdiction, the district court had decided that the savings clause of 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West Supp. 2008) addressed the merits of the § 2241 petition. the original imprisonment, district sentence, and court s resentenced ordered him decision and The court vacated Poole released. and applied to We remanded the 135 months reversed the case with instructions to reinstate the original sentence. On remand, Poole moved for an in-court resentencing with consideration of the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) (2006) factors and for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) (2006). The district court held that its only mandate was to reinstate the original sentence and that it had no authority to consider the § 3553(a) factors government s motion in for doing so. immediate The court execution of granted the the mandate, ordered Poole to surrender himself, denied Poole s request for 2 resentencing under § 3553(a), and reserved its ruling on Poole s § 3582(c) motion. Poole order which appeals denied the his portion motion of for the a district court s resentencing under § 3553(a), arguing that 18 U.S.C. § 3742(g) (2006) compels the district court to resentence a defendant under § 3553(a) on remand. Poole acknowledges that the mandate rule requires a district court to comply on remand with the dictates of a superior court and forecloses relitigation of issues expressly or impliedly decided by the appellate court. United States v. Bell, 5 F.3d 64, 66 (4th Cir. 1993) (citation omitted). argues that § 3742(g) nevertheless takes precedence. He Section 3742(g) provides that [a] district court to which a case is remanded pursuant to subsection (f)(1) or (f)(2) shall resentence a defendant in accordance with section 3553 and with such instructions appeals[.] as may have been given by the court of Subsections (f)(1) and (f)(2) provide that, if the court of appeals decides that: (1) the sentence was imposed in violation of law or imposed as a result of an incorrect application of the sentencing guidelines, the court shall remand the case for further sentencing proceedings with such instructions as the court considers appropriate; [or] (2) the sentence is outside the applicable guideline range and the district court failed to provide the required statement of reasons in the order of judgment 3 and commitment, or the departure is based on an impermissible factor, or is to an unreasonable degree, or the sentence was imposed for an offense for which there is no applicable sentencing guideline and is plainly unreasonable, it shall state specific reasons for its conclusions[.] Neither subsection (f)(1) nor (f)(2) of § 3742 applies here because we did not remand Poole s case to the district court for resentencing sentence. district Instead, court to the to correct case was correct its an error remanded in the solely original the assertion erroneous for of jurisdiction over Poole s § 2241 petition by reinstating the original sentence. The district court complied with our mandate. The district court did not err in determining that it lacked authority to consider the § 3553(a) factors because it was without authority to alter the sentence for any reason. We therefore affirm the district court s reinstating Poole s original 262-month sentence. order We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED 4
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