United States Second Circuit

Sua sponte imposition of enhanced non-Guidelines sentence without notice is remanded for resentencing as notice and opportunity to challenge the grounds for a non-Guidelines sentence adverse to the defendant must be given.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/20/2006
• Published 07/20/2006

Judges

• NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before MESKILL, NEWMAN, and B.D.PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Yuanchung Lee, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., Appeals Bureau, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant., David C. James, Asst. U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, U.S. Atty., Amy Busa, Asst. U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, NY, on the brief), for Appellee.