United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's supervised release revocation sentence is affirmed where the commission's policy statement concerning whether a sentence reduction was authorized, U.S.S.G. section 1B1.10, was binding, and did not authorize a reduction in defendant's supervised release revocation sentence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/04/2009
• Decided 01/05/2010
• Published 01/05/2010

Judges

• Before ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, RAYMOND C. FISHER and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Argued by Stephen R. Sady, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Portland, OR; briefed by Alison M. Clark, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Portland, OR, for the defendant-appellant., Argued by Leah K. Bolstad, Assistant United States Attorney, Portland, OR; briefed by Karin J. Immergut, United States Attorney, District of Oregon, Portland, OR; and Kathleen L. Bickers, Assistant United States Attorney, Portland, OR, for the plaintiff-appellee.