Garcia

United States v. Garcia

Good Law
507 F.3d 1213·2007 WL 4096184·2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 26697
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitNovember 19, 200705-30356, 05-30391, 05-30415California3,976 words

Opinion

Opinion

Fisher, J.

This appeal requires us to consider several allegations of sentencing error. Initially, we must decide whether we have jurisdiction to review a sentence that is imposed in accordance with a plea agreement under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1)(C) and that is not contingent upon the advisory Sentencing Guidelines. We also must determine whether a district court commits plain error by failing to explicitly set the maximum number of non-treatment related drug tests to which the defendant will be exposed as a condition of supervised release. Finally, we must evaluate whether a district court commits plain error by imposing a financial disclosure condition on a defendant who has been convicted of a drug trafficking offense and has a history of drug use. We hold that we do not have jurisdiction to review a sentence within the range agreed to in a Rule 11(c)(1)(C) plea agreement, and that the district court did not commit plain error by imposing either condition.

I. Background

Because the issues on appeal are exclusively related to sentencing, we need not recount detailed facts of the underlying criminal offenses to which the defendants pled guilty. Rather, we explain only…

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