Menyweather

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 03-50496 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CR-00-01253-R

DOROTHY MENYWEATHER,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Manuel L. Real, District Judge, Presiding

Argued October 13, 2004; Resubmitted December 7, 2005 San Francisco, California

Filed December 16, 2005

Before: Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Michael Daly Hawkins, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Graber; Dissent by Judge Kleinfeld

16479 16482 UNITED STATES v. MENYWEATHER

COUNSEL

Nicholas A. Marsh, Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, United States Department of Justice, Wash- ington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellant.

Elizabeth A. Newman, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California, for the defendant-appellee.

OPINION

GRABER, Circuit Judge:

For the third time, the United States appeals the sentence imposed upon Defendant Dorothy Menyweather’s conviction UNITED STATES v. MENYWEATHER 16483 by guilty plea to one count of mail…