United States v. Christina Carman

KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.

Subject to very few exceptions, the filing of a notice of appeal shifts from the district court to the court of appeals adjudicatory authority over any aspect of the case-here, Christina Carman's conviction and sentence-involved in the appeal. Yet here-more than four months after the district court had entered its criminal judgment, and nearly as long after Carman had appealed-the district court purported to amend her sentence by entering a $17.5 million forfeiture order. By then the district court had lost authority to enter that order (though not for the reasons *616…