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Summary: [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT U.S. COURT OF APPEALS _ ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AUGUST 11, 2005 No. 04-16670 THOMAS K. KAHN Non-Argument Calendar CLERK _ D.C. Docket No. 02-00014-TP-KMM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus EVERETT CRAIG SIMMONS, Defendant-Appellant. _ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida _ (August 11, 2005) Before CARNES, MARCUS and WILSON, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Afte
Summary: [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT U.S. COURT OF APPEALS _ ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AUGUST 11, 2005 No. 04-16670 THOMAS K. KAHN Non-Argument Calendar CLERK _ D.C. Docket No. 02-00014-TP-KMM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus EVERETT CRAIG SIMMONS, Defendant-Appellant. _ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida _ (August 11, 2005) Before CARNES, MARCUS and WILSON, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: After..
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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FILED
FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
________________________ ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
AUGUST 11, 2005
No. 04-16670 THOMAS K. KAHN
Non-Argument Calendar CLERK
________________________
D.C. Docket No. 02-00014-TP-KMM
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
versus
EVERETT CRAIG SIMMONS,
Defendant-Appellant.
__________________________
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Florida
_________________________
(August 11, 2005)
Before CARNES, MARCUS and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
After the district court revoked Everett Craig Simmons’s original period of
supervision because it found that he had violated the conditions of his release, the
court imposed of a five-month sentence followed by a new 36-month term of
supervised release. Simmons appeals only the period of supervision, arguing that,
although the portion of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines pertaining to the
revocation of supervised release was advisory when the court sentenced him, the
additional term of supervised release violates his rights under United States v.
Booker, 543 U.S. ___, ___,
125 S. Ct. 738, 756-58 (2005).
Because Simmons did not raise any objections to the district court’s
application of the guidelines, our review is for plain error only. United States v.
Rodriguez,
398 F.3d 1291, 1298 (11th Cir.), cert. denied,
125 S. Ct. 2935 (2005).
To prevail under plain error review, Simmons must establish that there is (1) an
error, (2) that is plain, (3) affects his substantial rights, and (4) seriously affects the
fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.
Id.
In Booker, the Supreme Court held, in relevant part, that the United States
Sentencing Guidelines pass constitutional muster as long as the sentencing court
considers them as advisory, not mandatory. Booker, 543 U.S. at ___, 125 S.Ct. at
764. The portion of the Guidelines pertaining to supervised release, namely
Chapter 7, contains policy statements that are explicitly advisory only. See U.S.
SENTENCING GUIDELINES ch. 7, pt. A(1), introductory cmt. (“Under 28 U.S.C. §
994(a)(3), the Sentencing Commission is required to issue guidelines or policy
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statements applicable to the revocation of probation and supervised release. At
this time, the Commission has chosen to promulgate policy statements only.”);
United States v. Cook,
291 F.3d 1297, 1301 (11th Cir. 2002) (observing that “[t]he
Sentencing Commission has not yet promulgated any binding probation revocation
guidelines; instead, the Sentencing Commission has opted for the flexibility of
advisory policy statements, which are nonbinding on the courts.”).
Because the guidelines pertaining to the penalties that a district court may
impose upon a revocation of supervised release always have been advisory, the
court did not order Simmons to serve an additional term of supervised release
under a mandatory Guideline system. See
Cook, 291 F.3d at 1301. Accordingly,
the district court committed no Booker error, plain or otherwise, that resulted in a
violation of Simmons’s rights. Therefore, we find no reversible error and affirm.
AFFIRMED.
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