was a Class A felony and, therefore, Love was ineligible for probation. Love’s counsel then repeatedly requested the court impose a sentence of time served followed by a term of supervised release. The court sentenced Love to 45 days’ incarceration fol lowed by five years of supervised release. Love does not challenge the district court’s ruling regarding his ineligibility for probation. Instead, he claims the district court erred i supervised release he could receive is one year. He contends that if contempt can be classified as a felony or a misdemeanor pursuant to the offense classification scheme set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3559(a), it is in his case a misdemeanor, in light of either the applicable Guidelines range, see United States v. Carpenter, 91 F.3d 1282, 1285 (9th Cir.1996) (<HOLDING>), or the actual term of incarceration he
holding contempt should be classified for sentencing purposes according to the applicable guidelines range for the most nearly analogous offense holding that retroactive application of advisory sentencing guidelines violated ex post facto clause because guidelines increased minimum sentencing range holding that a sentencing judge would violate section 3553a by limiting consideration of the applicable guidelines range to the facts found by the jury or admitted by the defendant instead of considering the applicable guidelines range as required by subsection 3553a4 based on the facts found by the court holding that where the guidelines range was six to 12 months for the underlying offense the contempt should be classified as a class a misdemeanor holding that despite the advisory nature of the sentencing guidelines they remain the starting point and the initial benchmark of a district courts sentencing analysis the district court should begin all sentencing proceedings by correctly calculating the applicable guidelines range and keep that range in mind throughout the sentencing process and that failing to calculate or improperly calculating the guidelines range  or failing to adequately explain the chosen sentenceemdashincluding an explanation for any deviation from the guidelines range constitutes significant procedural error 