United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's child molestation sentence is affirmed where: 1) the government did not violate its plea agreement with Defendant by recommending a longer sentence based on uncharged offenses; and 2) Defendant's claim that he could be civilly committed based on the charged conduct was unripe.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/21/2008
• Decided 03/09/2009
• Published 03/09/2009

Judges

• Before:  Diarmuid F. O'SCANNLAIN, PAMELA ANN RYMER, and ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jonathan S. Solovy, Law Office of Jonathan S. Solovy, Seattle, WA, argued the cause for the defendant-appellant and filed the briefs., Mark Parrent, Assistant United States Attorney, Seattle, WA, argued the cause for the plaintiff-appellee and filed the brief.  Jeffrey C. Sullivan, United States Attorney, Seattle, WA, was also on the brief.