Carver

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Nos. 23-4105 23-4107 Plaintiff - Appellee, D.C. Nos. 8:11-cr-00062- v.

JLS-

8:23-cr-00060-

ROBERT LOUIS CARVER, AKA

JLS-

Donald Howard, AKA John Roberts,

OPINION

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Josephine L. Staton, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted March 6, 2025 * Pasadena, California

Filed April 2, 2025

Before: Richard C. Tallman, Sandra S. Ikuta, and Morgan B. Christen, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Ikuta

* The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). SUMMARY **

Criminal Law

The panel affirmed a sentence imposed on Robert Louis Carver in two separate criminal cases. In calculating Carver’s criminal history score under the Sentencing Guidelines, the district court added two points for each of two 1994 California convictions on the ground that each qualified under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.1(b) as a “prior sentence of imprisonment of at least sixty days[.]” In determining…