Welch

United States v. Welch

Good Law
283 F. App'x 483
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJune 19, 2008No. 07-30296California823 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM ***

James William Welch, Jr. appeals from the twenty-four month sentence imposed by the district court after he admitted to three violations of the terms of his super *484 vised release. At the sentencing hearing, Welch made no objection to either the length of the sentence or the method of computation of the sentence. On appeal, he raises several alleged sentencing errors, none of which were raised before the district court.

In 2000, Welch pled guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Distribute an estimated 240 grams of Methamphetamine and one count of Carrying a Firearm During and in Relation to a Drug Trafficking Offense. The district court initially sentenced Welch to a total term of imprisonment of two-hundred months on the two counts. In 2004, the district court re-sentenced Welch, because of substantial assistance he was providing to the government, reducing his sentence to forty months on the conspiracy charge and sixty months on the firearm charge, with the terms to run consecutively. He was also sentenced to five years supervised release on each count, with the terms to run concurrently.

Welch was released from prison and placed on supervised release in…

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