United States v. Rodney Browning

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS AUG 15 2022

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 20-50308

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 2:87-cr-00571-SVW-6 v.

RODNEY BROWNING, MEMORANDUM*

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Stephen V. Wilson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 1, 2022 Pasadena, California

Before: TALLMAN and FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judges, and KORMAN,** District Judge. Dissent by Judge FRIEDLAND.

Rodney Browning is serving a life sentence imposed for a major multi-drug

trafficking conspiracy which ended in June 1987. He has now completed a

concurrent sentence for a related crack cocaine distribution offense. He moved for

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable Edward R. Korman, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, sitting by designation. a reduction of his…