United States DC Circuit

Defendant's drug distribution sentence is reversed where 18 U.S.C. section 3582(a) expressly prohibits sentencing courts from treating rehabilitation as a reason for imposing a longer term of imprisonment, and the district court committed plain error by doing so.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/20/2009
• Decided 07/28/2009
• Published 07/28/2009

Judges

• Before:  HENDERSON, TATEL, and GARLAND, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan Zucker argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nicholas P. Coleman, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellee.   With him on the brief were Jeffrey A. Taylor, U.S. Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III, Elizabeth Trosman, and Kenneth F. Whitted, Assistant U.S. Attorneys.