United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's drug sentence is affirmed, where: 1) the District Court was statutorily required to impose consecutive sentences, as required by 18 U.S.C. section 1791(a)(2) when the offense at issue involves controlled substances, and 2) the sentence did not exceed the applicable statutory maximum.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/07/2009
• Decided 05/15/2009
• Published 05/15/2009

Judges

• THOMPSON, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before: HARRY PREGERSON and DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judges, and JEREMY D. FOGEL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Neha Mehta, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Sheri Pym, Assistant United States Attorney, Riverside, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.