United States Sixth Circuit

Defendants' sentences for conspiring to defraud the United States by impeding the Internal Revenue Service in the ascertainment and collection of tax and attempting to evade income tax are reversed pursuant to a Booker challenge.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/23/2005
• Published 12/23/2005

Judges

• KENNEDY, Circuit Judge., Before:  KEITH, KENNEDY, and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Douglas A. Trant, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellants.   Brian Galle, Tax Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Douglas A. Trant, Knoxville, Tennessee, Roger W. Dickson, Travis R. McDonough, Miller & Martin, Chattanooga, Tennessee, for Appellants.  Brian Galle, Alan Hechtkopf, Tax Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.