United States Ninth Circuit

Sentence imposed on defendant following a guilty plea to two counts of possession of contraband by an inmate and one count of providing contraband to an inmate is vacated and remanded, where the district court committed plain error by interpreting 18 U.S.C. section 1791(c) to require consecutive sentencing for controlled substances offenses that arose out of separate items of drugs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/29/2013
• Published 05/29/2013

Judges

• PAEZ

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel