United States Ninth Circuit

A downward sentencing departure splitting a tax evasion sentence between imprisonment and home detention was proper, given defendant's irreplaceable role in caring for his wife.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/06/2002
• Decided 08/27/2003
• Published 08/27/2003

Judges

• Before BRUNETTI, TASHIMA, Circuit Judges, and EZRA, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• S. Robert Lyons, AUSA, Washington, D.C., for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anne R. Traum, AFPD, Las Vegas, NV, for the appellee.