United States v. Gene A. Blanton

ENGEL, Circuit Judge.

The United States appeals two orders of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, the first modifying defendant Gene A. Blanton’s sentence to delete the requirement that he stand committed for his $40,000 fine, and the second denying the Government’s Motion to Reconsider the change in sentence. We conclude that Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provides no basis for the district court’s action in deleting the requirement that Blanton stand committed for the fine, and we therefore reverse and vacate the orders appealed from.

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