Legal Opinion
United States v. Steven Charles Belden
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 20, 1992No. 91-30022PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYMER, Circuit Judge:
Steven Charles Belden appeals his sentence for manufacturing marijuana in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) on the grounds that the police mishandled confiscated marijuana plants so as to prevent an accurate re-count of the plants; the district court erred in counting plants that were not to be harvested when computing his offense level; the Guideline under which he was sentenced, which equated one marijuana plant to one kilogram of marijuana, violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment; the district court clearly erred in failing to grant him an offense level…
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