Martin

United States v. Martin

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143 F. App'x 811
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitAugust 18, 2005No. 03-10438California893 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Curtis R. Martin, Jr., appeals the 162-month sentence he received following his plea of guilty. We remand Martin’s sentence to the district court under United States v. Ameline, 409 F.3d 1073 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc).

Because the parties are familiar with the facts, we include them here only as necessary to our disposition. In 1998, Martin established a company that he claimed was a subsidiary of a large Hong Kong corporation. He used this company to secure multimillion-dollar lines of credit from financial institutions for the purpose of leasing computers. Once he took possession of the computers, however, Martin would sell them at drastically discounted rates and reinvest the proceeds in another business venture. After this scheme was exposed, Martin pled guilty to one count of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud, one count of interstate transportation of fraudulently obtained property, and one count of money transactions in criminally derived property. He was originally sentenced to 188 months’ imprisonment. We vacated that sentence, United States v. Martin, 278 F.3d 988 (9th Cir.2002), and the district court resentenced him to a term of 162 months’…

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