United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's sentence for the illegal possession of a firearm is reversed where the district court erred in refusing to consider his cooperation in deciding to depart upward and in calculating the degree of departure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/25/2005
• Published 02/25/2005

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, McWILLIAMS, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Cyd Gilman, Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Kansas, Wichita, KS, for Defendant-Appellant., Brent I. Anderson, Assistant United States Attorney (Eric F. Melgren, United States Attorney, with him on the briefs), Wichita, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.