Leniear

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 08-30199 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  3:04-CR-00047-

CHRISTOPHER LENIEAR, JKS-

Defendant-Appellant.  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska James K. Singleton, Senior District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 12, 2009—Seattle, Washington

Filed June 18, 2009

Before: William A. Fletcher, Ronald M. Gould, and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Tallman

7317 7320 UNITED STATES v. LENIEAR

COUNSEL

Allan D. Beiswenger, Anchorage, Alaska, for the defendant- appellant.

Audrey J. Renschen (argued) and Jo Ann Farrington, Assis- tant United States Attorneys, and Nelson P. Cohen, United States Attorney, Anchorage, Alaska, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:

Christopher Leniear appeals the district court’s denial of his motion for a sentence reduction based on Amendment 706 to the United States Sentencing Guidelines (“U.S.S.G.” or “Sen- tencing Guidelines”). Amendment 706 reduced by two…