United States v. Leonard Walter

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS NOV 18 2021

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-16056 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. Nos. 2:19-cv-00446-JAM-CKD 2:14-cr-00210-JAM-CKD-2 v.

LEONARD WALTER, MEMORANDUM*

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California John A. Mendez, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted May 10, 2021 San Francisco, California

Before: WALLACE and COLLINS, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF,** District Judge.

Defendant-Appellant Leonard Walter appeals from the district court’s denial

of his motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. We have jurisdiction under

U.S.C. § 1291 and § 2253(a), (c)(1)(B), and we affirm.

In February 2019, Walter was sentenced to the 10-year mandatory minimum

sentence based on his earlier plea of guilty to a single count of conspiring to

possess, with intent to distribute, at least 50 grams of methamphetamine in

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is…