United States Fifth Circuit

Sentence including restitution for conspiring to possess marijuana with intent to distribute is affirmed where the statute authorizing discretionary restitution orders for defendants convicted of certain crimes also applied to conspiracy to commit any of the enumerated crimes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2008
• Published 09/10/2008

Judges

• RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKSDALE, BENAVIDES and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paula Camille Offenhauser and James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, TX, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marjorie A. Meyers, Fed. Pub. Def., Timothy William Crooks and Margaret Christina Ling, Asst. Fed. Pub. Defenders, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.