United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's drug and firearm possession sentence is affirmed where a pardon defendant received for a prior state offense did not constitute an expungement and the district court correctly considered defendant's prior state convictions when calculating defendant's criminal history category.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/17/2009
• Published 12/17/2009

Judges

• TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  RONALD M. GOULD and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and ROGER T. BENITEZ, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Dennis Benjamin, Nevin, Benjamin, McKay & Bartlett LLP, Boise, ID, for the defendant-appellant., Thomas E. Moss, United States Attorney, and Christian S. Nafzger, Assistant United States Attorney, Boise, ID, for the plaintiff-appellee.