United States Eleventh Circuit

17-month sentence imposed after guilty plea to with conspiring to import and importing plant specimens in violation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, implemented by the Endangered Species Act, is affirmed over claims that the district court misinterpreted the term "market value of the plants" in section 2Q2.1, U.S.S.G., and also violated defendant's Sixth Amendment rights under Booker.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/23/2006
• Published 06/23/2006

Judges

• STROM, District Judge:, Before DUBINA and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and STROM, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carlos Fernando Gonzalez, Arnstein & Lehr, LLP, Miami, FL, for Norris., Todd S. Aagaard, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, Anne R. Schultz, Asst. U.S. Atty., Miami, FL, for U.S.