Legal Opinion
United States v. Hoa Cam Lam
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 31, 1994No. 92-50321PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge:
Hoa Cam Lam pled guilty to the offense of being in possession of an unregistered sawed-off shotgun. 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d). He was sentenced in a proceeding where the district judge said that he would depart if he could but lacked the discretion to do so. Lam appealed and we now vacate the sentence and remand.
BACKGROUND
Lam is the oldest son of a Vietnamese family that, amid great travail and sorrow, immigrated .to this country in 1980 in an attempt to make a new life. He and the family arrived here penniless, but they are very close and they worked together and saved…
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