UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Pedro HERNANDEZ, Defendant-Appellant, 479 F. App'x 735

ORDER On July 81, 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States granted Pedro Hernandez’s petition for a writ of certiorari, vacated this court’s judgment in the case, and remanded for further consideration in light of Dorsey v. United States, 567 U.S. -, 132 S.Ct. 2321, 183 L.Ed.2d 250 (2012). In accordance with Circuit Rule 54, both parties have filed statements of position setting forth the action that they believe should be taken.

The Government concedes that Hernandez was sentenced after August 3, 2010, for an offense involving cocaine base, and that under Dorsey he should have been sentenced within the statutory penalties set by the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. Following the law that then prevailed in this circuit, the district court had not done so. The Government now concedes that this error was not harmless, because the court imposed a sentence at the old mandatory minimum and did not indicate either way whether it would have necessarily given a lower sentence.

Hernandez also argues that he is entitled to resentencing in a manner consistent with the Fam Sentencing Act and Dorsey. We agree with the assessments of both parties. We thus VACATE Hernandez’s sentence and REMAND this case to the district court for the Northern District of Illinois for re-sentencing under the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, as required by Dorsey. So Ordered.