Ressam

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 05-30422 v.  D.C. No.

CR-99-00666-001-

AHMED RESSAM, also known as Benni Antoine Noris, JCC Defendant-Appellee. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 05-30441 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  CR-99-00666-001- AHMED RESSAM, also known as JCC Benni Antoine Noris,

ORDER

Defendant-Appellant.  On Remand from the United States Supreme Court

Filed August 15, 2008

Before: Arthur L. Alarcón, Pamela Ann Rymer, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.

ORDER

The mandate of the United States Supreme Court having issued on Ahmed Ressam’s appeal from his conviction for carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(2)(1994), United States v. Ressam, ___ U.S. ___, 128 S.Ct. 1858 (2008), we must now

10717 10718 UNITED STATES v. RESSAM reach the government’s challenge to the reasonableness of Ressam’s sentence. United States v. Carty, 520 F.3d 984 (9th Cir. 2007) (en banc), was decided after sentence was imposed in this case…