OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal appeals panel has reversed the more than 12-year prison sentence for a gang member whose sentence was enhanced for his role in a jailhouse plot to murder a confidential informant.

Hugo Galaviz, of Grand Island, was among several members of a violent central Nebraska gang arrested in a 2010 federal raid. Galaviz pleaded guilty last summer to dealing methamphetamine and being a felon with a gun.

Galaviz received an enhanced sentenced based on the finding that he sought to obstruct justice by plotting to have an informant killed.

But on Monday, a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new sentencing hearing, saying Galaviz’s motive was to seek revenge on the informant, not to keep the informant from testifying in Galaviz’s case.