United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's firearm possession sentence is affirmed, where a District Court does not abuse its discretion by declining to consider the disparity between a recommended Guidelines sentence and the maximum sentence a defendant would receive if convicted of the same conduct in state court.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/15/2008
• Decided 07/07/2009
• Published 07/07/2009

Judges

• THOMAS, Circuit Judge:, Before:  J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, EDWARD LEAVY and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Barry J. Portman, Federal Public Defender, and Jerome E. Matthews (argued), Assistant Federal Public Defender, Oakland, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Joseph P. Russoniello, United States Attorney, Barbara J. Valliere, Assistant United States Attorney, and W.S. Wilson Leung (argued), Assistant United States Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.