United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's firearm possession sentence is affirmed, where: 1) the District Court erred by denying Defendant the opportunity to represent himself, but that error did not prejudice Defendant; and 2) the Sentencing Guidelines borrowed 18 U.S.C. section 922's definition of a firearm, but not the statute's effective date.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/02/2009
• Decided 05/19/2009
• Published 05/19/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  B. FLETCHER, PAMELA A. RYMER and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bret F. Maness (argued), Atwater, CA, pro se defendant-appellant., Nelson P. Cohen, United States Attorney, Jo Ann Farrington and Thomas C. Bradley (argued), Assistant United States Attorneys, Anchorage, AK, for the plaintiff-appellee.