United States v. Ellis

STAHL, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant Boyd Ellis challenges certain aspects of his trial and sentencing after his conviction on firearms possession and marijuana cultivation charges. We affirm Ellis’s conviction, but vacate the sentence and remand to the district court for resentencing.

I. Facts

Acting on information supplied by various confidential informants, as well as on limited corroborative police investigation, state and federal agents obtained a search warrant for Ellis’s home and attached property. The agents located approximately sixty-five marijuana plants in a secret compartment…