United States DC Circuit

Sentence for possession by a felon of a firearm and drug possession crimes is vacated and remanded for the district court to make explicit the applicable Guidelines range and how its consideration of the required factors under 18 U.S.C. section 3553(a) affected its departure from or adherence to that range.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/02/2007
• Decided 07/20/2007
• Published 07/20/2007

Judges

• Before:  GINSBURG, Chief Judge, and GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge, and WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nikki U. Lotze argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John P. Gidez, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellee.   With him on the brief were Kenneth L. Wainstein, U.S. Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Roy W. McLeese, III, David B. Goodhand, and Kenneth F. Whitted, Assistant U.S. Attorneys.