United States v. Thomas Littlejohn ( 2020 )

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 20-6205
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
THOMAS FLOYD LITTLEJOHN,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at
Asheville. Martin K. Reidinger, Chief District Judge. (1:90-cr-00231-MR-WCM-5)
Submitted: August 20, 2020 Decided: August 25, 2020
Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, WYNN, and QUATTLEBAUM, Circuit Judges.
Vacated and remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Thomas Floyd Littlejohn, Appellant Pro Se.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Thomas Floyd Littlejohn appeals the district court’s January 17, 2020, order finding
that Littlejohn was ineligible for a sentence reduction under the First Step Act of 2018,
Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194 (“FSA”). Since then, and while this appeal has been
pending, this court published two opinions that have bearing on the district court’s
dispositive rationale: United States v. Chambers, 956 F.3d 667, 668 (4th Cir. 2020)
(holding that “any Guidelines error deemed retroactive . . . must be corrected in a First Step
Act resentencing”), and United States v. Gravatt, 953 F.3d 258, 263-64 (4th Cir. 2020)
(holding that a defendant is convicted of a “‘covered offense’” under the FSA “where he
was charged conjunctively with conspiring to distribute both powder cocaine and crack
cocaine”). Upon review of the arguments pressed on appeal, and in light of our recent
decisions, we vacate the district court’s order and remand this case to the district court for
further proceedings consistent with Chambers and Gravatt. We express no opinion as to
how the district court should resolve the involved issues. We dispense with oral argument
because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this
court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
VACATED AND REMANDED
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