United States v. Douglas Knight

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 08-30372 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  6:04-CR-00002-

DOUGLAS JAMES KNIGHT, CCL

Defendant-Appellant.  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana Charles C. Lovell, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted July 6, 2009—Portland, Oregon

Filed September 2, 2009

Before: Harry Pregerson, Pamela Ann Rymer and A. Wallace Tashima, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Pregerson

12231 UNITED STATES v. KNIGHT 12233

COUNSEL

Steven C. Haddon, Haddon Law Office, Helena, Montana, for the defendant-appellant (argued and on the briefs).

Paulette L. Stewart, Assistant United States Attorney (argued and on the briefs), William W. Mercer, United States Attor- ney, and Eric B. Wolff, Assistant United States Attorney (on the briefs), Helena, Montana, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

Douglas Knight (“Knight”) appeals his sentence of twenty- four months imprisonment and twelve months supervised release, imposed after the district…