Marshall
United States v. Marshall
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
On a prior appeal, we ordered a limited remand pursuant to United States v. Ameline, 409 F.3d 1073 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc). The district court declined to alter Marshall’s sentence and also declined to conduct an in-person, live sentencing hearing. Marshall appeals, challenging the denial of a live resentencing hearing, the application of the career offender enhancement, and the reasonableness of the reimposed sentence. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3742 (a)(1) and 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . Concluding that Marshall’s allocution rights were not violated, that he waived his challenge to the application of the enhancement, and that Marshall’s sentence survives the limited reasonableness review that applies under these circumstances, we affirm.
With respect to the first issue, we faced the question of “whether a defendant has a right to allocute during a limited remand to the district court from a sentencing appeal” in United States v. Silva, 472 F.3d 683, 684 (9th Cir.2007), and concluded that the answer was no. Id. at 687-88 . Because the circumstances here of the district court’s decision not to hold a live resentencing hearing were identical to those in…