
USCA1 Opinion

	




          May 13, 1996                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                 ____________________        No. 95-2195                                    UNITED STATES,                                      Appellee,                                          v.                                     ALINA PEREZ,                                Defendant, Appellant.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS                     [Hon. Robert E. Keeton, U.S. District Judge]                                             ___________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                                Torruella, Chief Judge,                                           ___________                            Cyr and Lynch, Circuit Judges.                                           ______________                                 ____________________            Lenore Glaser on brief for appellant.            _____________            Donald K. Stern, United  States Attorney, and  Michael J.  Pelgro,            _______________                                __________________        Assistant U.S. Attorney, on brief for appellee.                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                 Per Curiam.   In view  of our recent  opinion clarifying                 __________            that  a  sentencing  court  "may  invoke    4A1.3  to  depart            downward from  the career  offender category if  it concludes            that  the  category  inaccurately  reflects  the  defendant's            actual criminal  history,"  United States v.  Lindia, No. 95-                                        ________________________            2200, slip op. at 21 (1st Cir. April 18, 1996), together with            our   uncertainty  whether   the   district   court  made   a            discretionary decision not to  depart or, instead, viewed its            authority as  more restricted  than Lindia allows,  we vacate                                                ______            the sentence and remand for further consideration.                  Vacated and remanded.  Loc. R. 27.1.                 ____________________                                         -3-
