United States Ninth Circuit

Post-Booker, when imposing a sentence, a district court must provide on the record some articulation of its consideration of the 18 U.S.C. section 3553(a) factors and explanation of the reasons underlying its sentence selection. A conviction for sexual abuse is affirmed over claims of error regarding the sufficiency of the evidence, and the sentence is remanded pursuant to a claim that it was imposed in violation of Apprendi and Booker.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/06/2006
• Decided 07/17/2006
• Published 07/17/2006

Judges

• Before:  ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, MARY M. SCHROEDER, STEPHEN REINHARDT, PAMELA ANN RYMER, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, BARRY G. SILVERMAN, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, RONALD M. GOULD, RICHARD A. PAEZ, MARSHA S. BERZON, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, JAY S. BYBEE, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey T. Green, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, AZ, (argued);  Milagros A. Cisneros, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, AZ, for defendant-appellant Alphonso Kinzar Carty., Dennis M. Charney, Eagle, ID, for defendant-appellant Juan Antonio Zavala., Michael R. Dreeben, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C, for plaintiff-appellee.