United States Ninth Circuit

A district court may not depart from an applicable guidelines range on the basis of sentence disparity among co-defendants under 18 USC 3553(b) unless the co-defendants were con-victed of the same offense as the defendant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/07/2001
• Decided 06/01/2001
• Published 06/01/2001

Judges

• TROTT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  DONALD P. LAY,STEPHEN S. TROTT, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bonnie E. MacNaughton,United States Attorney's Office, Seattle, Washington, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew N. Menzer, McNaul, Ebel, Nawrot, Helgren & Vance, P.L.L.C., Seattle, Washington, for the defendant-appellee, cross-appellant.