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vacating the Fifth Circuit's judgment in United States v. Pineiro, 377 F.3d 464, and remanding the case in light of the Supreme Court's subsequent decision in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. ___, 125 S.Ct. 738, which held that the United States Sentencing Guidelines, to the extent they represented a mandatory rather than advisory punishment scheme, violated the Sixth Amendment's twin guarantees of trial by jury and conviction by a beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard
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No. 04-5263.
January 24, 2005.
C.A. 5th Cir. Certiorari Granted — Reversed and Remanded. (See No. 04-394) ante, P. 447.).
Certiorari Granted — Vacated and Remanded.
Reported below: 377 F. 3d 464;