Legal Opinion
United States v. Marvin Butler
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 23, 2004No. 02-50182PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BROWNING, Circuit Judge.
Marvin Butler challenges his sentence for mail fraud, money laundering, and related tax offenses. 1 The issue is whether, under the United States Sentencing Guidelines (USSG), as amended on November 1, 2001, counts of mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341 and money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1957 should be grouped together. We hold that the dis trict court erred in failing to consider Amendment 634 to the USSG at sentencing. This amendment provides that counts of fraud and money laundering arising from the same conduct are to be grouped together into…
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