USA v. Johnson
CRIMINAL

Western District of Kentucky at Louisville
06a0097a.06
2006/03/15

RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge. A 10-count indictment charged William Anthony Johnson and Christopher L. Stone, among others, with various violations of federal law, including the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), conspiracy to violate RICO, and fraud. Stone was tried before a jury and convicted of violating RICO and of conspiring to violate RICO. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of 240 months’ imprisonment on each count and ordered to pay $166,653.07 in restitution. In a separate jury trial, Johnson was tried on and convicted of four charges: RICO, conspiracy to violate RICO, uttering counterfeit obligations, and theft or receipt of stolen mail matter. He then pled guilty to three firearm and ammunition-related counts that had been previously severed from the other counts. The district court sentenced Johnson to life imprisonment for the RICO and RICO-conspiracy counts, 240 months for the utteringcounterfeit-obligations count, and 60 months for the theft-or-receipt-of-stolen-mail-matter count, to be served concurrently. On each of the firearms counts to which he pled guilty, he was sentenced to an additional 30 months of imprisonment, to be served concurrently with each other and with the other sentences. Finally, the district court ordered Johnson to pay $443,633.07 in restitution. Both Johnson and Stone appeal their convictions on various grounds. Stone also challenges his sentence and restitution order. Johnson, however, did not appeal either his sentence or his restitution order. For the reasons set forth below, we AFFIRM the convictions of Johnson and Stone as well as the order requiring Stone to pay restitution, but VACATE Stone’s sentence and REMAND his case for resentencing in accordance with United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005).