United States Ninth Circuit

Appeals from defendants' convictions and sentences for conspiring to possess and distribute cocaine are dismissed in part and affirmed in part, but vacated in part and remanded where the district court erred in sentencing one defendant under 21 U.S.C. section 841(b)(1)(B) based on the amount of crack "involved" in the conspiracy, without finding that defendant knew or could reasonably have foreseen that the conspiracy involved crack. (Amended opinion)

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/19/2007
• Decided 01/28/2008
• Published 01/28/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, A. WALLACE TASHIMA and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gretchen Fusilier, Carlsbad, CA, for defendant-appellant Juan Emanuel Lococo., Alissa Sawano Peterson, Irvine, CA, for defendant-appellant John D. Edwards, Jr., Philip Deitch, Van Nuys, CA, for defendant-appellant Charlotte Venia Jackson., Jennifer A. Corbet, Kevin S. Rosenberg and Thomas P. O'Brien, Assistant U.S. Attorneys;  George S. Cardona, Acting U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiff-appellee.