Hinojosa-Gonzalez
United States v. Hinojosa-Gonzalez
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Following his plea of guilty to four drug possession counts under 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1), and one conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute count under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 (a)(1), 846, Carlos Hinojosa-Gonzales was sentenced to 480 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release, and was fined $3 million. He appeals his sentence. We have 'jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 18 U.S.C. § 3742 (a).
I
Hinojosa argues the district court failed to provide him with adequate notice of the grounds for its decision to grant the Government’s upward departure motion, as required by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32. See Burns v. United States, 501 U.S. 129, 138 , 111 S.Ct. 2182, 2187 , 115 L.Ed.2d 123 (1991); United States v. Rafferty, 911 F.2d 227, 230 (9th Cir.1990). We assess the adequacy of notice de novo. See United States v. Karterman, 60 F.3d 576, 583 (9th Cir.1995).
In Bums, the Supreme Court highlighted Rule 32’s goal of “focused, adversarial development of the factual and legal issues relevant to determining the appropriate Guidelines sentence,” 501 U.S. at 134 , 111 S.Ct. at 2185 , and concluded this “requires the district court [to] give the parties…