United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's drug conspiracy sentence is reversed where the district court erred by applying an enhancement for abuse of trust, because defendant's position as a prison cook did not involve any "professional or managerial discretion."

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/19/2008
• Decided 09/17/2009
• Published 09/17/2009

Judges

• Before MYRON H. BRIGHT,MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, and A. WALLACE TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Jay Stern, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee., Thomas W. Kielty, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant.