                     United States Court of Appeals
                            FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                   No. 06-3927
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United States of America,               *
                                        *
             Appellee,                  *
                                        * Appeal from the United States
      v.                                * District Court for the
                                        * Western District of Missouri.
Robert L. Baker,                        *
                                        *
             Appellant.                 *
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                             Submitted: June 13, 2007
                                Filed: June 20, 2007
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Before BYE, RILEY, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
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RILEY, Circuit Judge.

      Robert L. Baker (Baker) appeals the district court’s1 sentence of 48-months’
imprisonment upon revocation of Baker’s supervised release. We affirm.

       On October 10, 2001, Baker pled guilty to one count of wire fraud, in violation
of 18 U.S.C. § 1343 (a Class D felony), and one count of money laundering, in
violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1957 (a Class C felony). The district court sentenced Baker
to 35 months’ imprisonment and 3 years’ supervised release on each count, to be

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      The Honorable Nanette K. Laughrey, United States District Judge for the
Western District of Missouri.
served concurrently. The district court also ordered Baker to pay $346,584 in
restitution.

       In November 2006, while serving his term of supervised release, Baker was
arrested for violating conditions of his supervised release. The violations included
defrauding a vulnerable woman of her jewelry, passing bad checks, stealing $200
donated to a church ministry, and misrepresenting and forging documents submitted
to the United States Probation Office. At Baker’s revocation hearing, the district court
found Baker guilty of violating the conditions of his supervised release. In
determining Baker’s sentence, the district court recognized the suggested United
States Sentencing Guidelines range of four to ten months, see U.S.S.G. § 7B1.4(a), but
exercised her discretion to sentence Baker outside of that range “to the statutory
maximum that I am permitted by law.” The district court explained Baker
(1) “continued to engage in fraudulent and illegal behavior of a similar kind,” (2) “still
posed a risk [to society]–even though [he received] the maximum sentence under the
guidelines,” and (3) “is incorrigible.” The district court concluded, “I see no
expectation that [Baker] will change his behavior, and I have no doubt if he gets out
in four years he will continue to engage in this kind of behavior.” The district court
sentenced Baker to 24 months’ imprisonment on both counts of conviction, to be
served consecutively, without a term of supervised release, for a total of 48 months’
imprisonment. The district court also ordered Baker to pay the remaining restitution
balance of $344,262, and delegated to both the government and to Baker the
responsibility of determining payment credits and the outstanding restitution balance.

      Baker now challenges his sentence, arguing Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure
32(h) required the district court to provide notice of its intention to “depart” upward
from the four to ten months range suggested by U.S.S.G. § 7B1.4(a). Baker also
contends his sentence is unreasonable and the district court improperly delegated to
the government the district court’s duty of determining the amount of restitution.



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      “‘When there is no applicable sentencing guideline, as in the case of a
revocation sentence, we review to determine whether the sentence was plainly
unreasonable. A district court’s decision to sentence a defendant to a longer term than
suggested by Chapter 7 is reviewed for abuse of discretion.’” United States v. Cotton,
399 F.3d 913, 916 (8th Cir. 2005) (internal citation omitted) (quoting United States
v. White Face, 383 F.3d 733, 737 (8th Cir. 2004)).

       Baker’s notice argument fails because we previously have concluded a district
court’s decision to exceed “the suggested range in the policy statements of Chapter
7 has not been considered to be an upward departure from the guidelines.” Id. Thus,
the notice requirement under Rule 32 does not apply. See also United States v.
Egenberger, 424 F.3d 803, 805-06 (8th Cir. 2005).2

       Additionally, we find the district court did not abuse its discretion in sentencing
Baker to two consecutive 24-month terms of imprisonment. The sentences were
within statutory limits, see 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3), and the sentences were based upon
the district court’s consideration of relevant factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), see
United States v. Tyson, 413 F.3d 824, 825-26 (8th Cir. 2005) (per curiam) (concluding
the district court properly considered the defendant’s history on probation in imposing
a sentence in excess of the suggested Guidelines range for revocation of probation,
and thus the sentence was not unreasonable); United States v. Franklin, 397 F.3d 604,
606-07 (8th Cir. 2005) (concluding the district court did not abuse its discretion by
imposing a sentence above the suggested Guidelines range because the district court
was aware of (1) the relevant § 3553(a) factors, (2) the defendant’s numerous and
repeated violations of his conditions of supervised release, (3) the suggested range
under Chapter 7 of the Guidelines, and (4) the statutory maximum sentence). Nor did

      2
        Because we conclude the district court was not required to provide notice of
its decision to exceed the suggested Guidelines range in Chapter 7, we need not
address the government’s contention Baker failed to preserve the notice issue for
appeal.

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the district court abuse its discretion by ordering the terms to be served consecutively.
See United States v. Cotroneo, 89 F.3d 510, 513 (8th Cir. 1996) (concluding the
district court had the discretionary authority, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3584, to sentence
the defendant to consecutive terms of imprisonment after revoking the defendant’s
concurrent terms of supervised release).

       Finally, we need not decide whether the district court erred in delegating the
government the task of determining Baker’s restitution credit because any error was
harmless. After sentencing, the government identified Baker’s uncredited payments,
recalculated Baker’s outstanding restitution balance, and notified Baker’s attorney of
the adjusted balance. Thus, Baker suffered no prejudice as a result of the district
court’s restitution order, and remand for resentencing is unnecessary. See United
States v. Idriss, 436 F.3d 946, 951 (8th Cir. 2006) (holding remand for resentencing
is inappropriate when the error is harmless).

      For the reasons stated, we affirm Baker’s sentence.
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