CA11: Booker remands and allocution

The Defense Newsletter Blog points to  U.S. v. Stevenson, No. 05-14504 (Jan. 17, 2006) (unpub.) which holds that a Booker remand requires a hearing.  The court concludes, “Because Stevenson’s original sentence was vacated in its entirety, the district court erred by not granting him a hearing and affording him the opportunity to allocute at resentencing.“