United States v. Hector Rengifo

OPINION

ROTH, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal of the sentence imposed by the District Court, we must determine the definition of “term of imprisonment” in the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Section 4A1.2(k). Hector Rengifo challenges the District Court’s interpretation of “term of imprisonment” as synonymous with “sentence of imprisonment.” Under the District Court’s interpretation, the career offender provisions of the Guidelines applied to Rengifo and he received an increased sentence. We conclude that the terms are synonymous. We will, therefore, affirm the judgment of sentence of the District…