United States Ninth Circuit

Submitting a false financial affadavit to a magistrate judge in order to obtain appointed counsel may qualify for a two-level sentence enhancement under USSG 3C1.1 for providing false information to a probation officer.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/06/2001
• Decided 06/20/2001
• Published 06/20/2001

Judges

• RYMER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  D.W. NELSON, FERNANDEZ, and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Maria E. Stratton, Federal Public Defender, and Richard D. Burda, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California, for the defendant-appellant., Jean A. Kawahara, Assistant United States Attorney, Santa Ana, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.