United States v. Taylor, No. 19-30222 (5th Cir. 2020)
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Taylor pleaded guilty as a felon in possession of firearms. The “offense conduct” section of the PSR includes information about Taylor’s involvement in shootings on August 12 and 13, 2017, and information regarding an August 15, 2017 traffic stop of a vehicle in which Taylor was a passenger during which officers found Taylor in possession of firearms. The PSR also listed four pending state charges, including weapons charges and attempted second-degree murder. The district court imposed a 120-month sentence.
The Fifth Circuit remanded the sentence. The district court erred when it attempted to reduce the length of his sentence either by ordering that the sentence should commence on a particular date or by ordering that he be given credit for time served. The attempt was ineffectual; the district court must consider, and state on the record, whether that court would have imposed the same sentence regardless. The sentence was also impermissibly ambiguous because the pronouncement that it “run concurrently with any sentence imposed by state authorities” does not specify with which state sentence or sentences, corresponding to four pending state court charges, the federal sentence will run concurrently.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on December 23, 2020.
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