United States v. Gary Sahlin

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to consider the effect of the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. -, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), in cases involving guilty pleas.

Gary Sahlin pled guilty and was sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment for armed bank robbery and use of a semiautomatic weapon during a crime of violence. He raises for the first time on appeal several challenges to both his guilty plea and his sentence. Sahlin argues that Booker entitles him to withdraw his plea of guilty because he had an erroneous understanding of the sentencing…