Ward

United States v. Ward

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121 F. App'x 789
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitFebruary 18, 2005No. 04-30145California248 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Faith E. Ward appeals from the sentence imposed after her guilty plea to post office burglary, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2115 . We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

Ward contends that the district court plainly erred when it imposed, as a special condition of her supervised release, the requirement that she participate in “either or both inpatient or outpatient treatment programs” for substance abuse treatment, because, according to Ward, the district court lacked authority under 18 U.S.C. § 3583 (d) to impose participation in an inpatient program. We disagree.

Ward’s contention is that because Section 3583(d) does not contain a cross-reference to 18 U.S.C. § 3563 (b)(ll), the subsection which permits a court to impose community confinement as a condition of probation, the district court lacked authority to impose that condition as part of her supervised release. This argument is foreclosed by our holding in United States v. Bake, 201 F.3d 1124, 1125-26 (9th Cm. 1999) (rejecting contention that the absence of any reference to subsection (b)(ll) in § 3583(d) signified Congress’s intent to deny a district court the authority to impose…

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