Legal Opinion

United States v. Todd Penna

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided February 10, 2003No. 01-50484PublishedCited by 38 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

PAEZ, Circuit Judge.

INTRODUCTION

We must decide whether the seven-day limitation in Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(c) for correcting a sentence is a strict jurisdictional requirement or whether a district court may modify a sentence more than seven days after its oral pronouncement. We hold that the seven-day requirement in Rule 35(c) is a jurisdictional requirement. Here, because the district court vacated Penna’s sentence within seven days, but did not resentence him within the same seven day period, it lacked jurisdiction under Rule 35(c) 1 to resentence Penna. Under these…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Apprendi v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  2. United States v. Anthony F. DaddinoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1993
  3. United States v. Miriam AguirreCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
  4. United States v. Barragan-MendozaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1999
  5. United States v. MorrisonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2000

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3Cited by38 opinions

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