United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm is vacated where the district court committed constitutional error under Booker and the government failed to show that the district court's mandatory application of the guidelines was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/29/2005
• Published 12/29/2005

Judges

• BLACK, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, BLACK and CARNES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kristen Gartman Rogers, Christopher Knight, Carlos Alfredo Williams (Fed. Pub. Defenders), Fed. Def. Org., Mobile, AL, for Cain., Leigh Lichty Pipkin, Mobile, AL, for U.S.