SHERI POLSTER CHAPPELL, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court on Petitioner Theodore Hinton, Jr.'s Motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Doc. 1)
Per a plea agreement, Hinton pled guilty to possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine in violation of federal law. (Crim. Doc. 1; Crim. Doc. 56). The Presentence Report ("PSR") determined that Hinton was a career offender under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1 because he had two prior drug convictions for trafficking cocaine and delivering the same drug. (Crim. Doc. 75 at ¶ 34). Pertinent here, the PSR lacked facts underlying Hinton's trafficking conviction under Fla. Stat. § 893.135(1)(b). (Id. at ¶ 52; Doc. 14-1 at 2, 4). And the Government did not introduce Shepard documents at Hinton's sentencing hearing because he did not object to the trafficking conviction serving as a predicate offense for the career offender enhancement. (Crim. Doc. 75 at 23; Doc. 9 at 3, 15). The Court thus sentenced Hinton to 151 months' imprisonment. (Crim. Doc. 80). And Hinton did not appeal.
But Hinton now collaterally attacks his sentence on grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel. (Doc. 1; Doc. 11). Because his claims all relate to his trafficking offense serving as a predicate offense, his sole request for relief is to "[v]acate and [r]emand this case for resentencing without the `Career Offender Enhancement' under 4B1.1." (Doc. 1 at 16).
The Government concedes Hinton's third ineffective assistance of counsel claim has merit. (Doc. 14). In Count Three, Hinton argues that his attorney did not object to the PSR's use of his trafficking offense as a predicate offense for the career offender enhancement. (Doc. 1 at 10). Because of Hinton's § 2255 motion, the Government has tried to locate Shepard-approved documents to support the enhancement. (Doc. 14). This is because Fla. Stat. § 893.135 is a divisible statute requiring the modified categorical approach. See United States v. Shannon, 631 F.3d 1187 (11th Cir. 2011). But the Government has come up empty handed. It can show neither that Hinton was convicted of two drug offenses nor that he was properly sentenced as a career offender. (Doc. 14 at 2-3). The Government thus concedes to Hinton's motion on Count Three. (Id. at 3).
Upon careful review of the applicable law, the parties' arguments, and the record, the Court will grant Hinton's motion as to Count Three and resentence Hinton. Because the Court is granting Hinton his requested relief, the Court will deny as moot (and without prejudice) the remaining claims in his motion.
Accordingly, it is now