Hollis

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 05-30611 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-04-00140-HRH

ARTHUR L. HOLLIS,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska H. Russel Holland, Chief District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 5, 2006—Seattle, Washington

Filed May 7, 2007

Before: Betty B. Fletcher and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges, and William W Schwarzer,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Schwarzer

*The Honorable William W Schwarzer, Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Matthew M. Robinson, Robinson & Brandt, P.S.C., Cincin- nati, Ohio, for the defendant-appellant. UNITED STATES v. HOLLIS 5131 Jo Ann Farrington, Assistant United States Attorney, Deborah M. Smith, Acting United States Attorney, Anchorage, Alaska, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

SCHWARZER, District Judge:

Arthur Hollis (Hollis) was sentenced to 240 months’ imprisonment after…