United States Ninth Circuit

A sentence for conspiracy to distribute or to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and for distribution of methamphetamine is vacated pursuant to a claim that the district court violated Booker when it "presumed" that the advisory Sentencing Guideline calculation set forth the proper range for sentencing defendant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/06/2006
• Decided 04/11/2006
• Published 04/11/2006

Judges

• Before:  ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, MARY M. SCHROEDER, STEPHEN REINHARDT, PAMELA ANN RYMER, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, BARRY G. SILVERMAN, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, RONALD M. GOULD, RICHARD A. PAEZ, MARSHA S. BERZON, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, JAY S. BYBEE, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey T. Green, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, AZ, (argued);  Milagros A. Cisneros, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, AZ, for defendant-appellant Alphonso Kinzar Carty., Dennis M. Charney, Eagle, ID, for defendant-appellant Juan Antonio Zavala., Michael R. Dreeben, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C, for plaintiff-appellee.