United States Ninth Circuit

At sentencing, the district court erred in imposing on a convicted narcotics laboratory operator the burden of proving non-participation in an underlying drug offense under U.S.S.G. section 2D1.8, but such error was harmless.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/06/2002
• Decided 02/10/2003
• Published 02/10/2003

Judges

• Before HALL, THOMPSON and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alissa Sawano Peterson, Irvine, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Debra Yang, United States Attorney;  John S. Gordon, James M. Aquilina, Assistant United States Attorneys, Los Angeles, CA, for the appellee.