Opinion
CR 18-39-M-DLC
10-25-2018
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. MARK ROCKWELL GIES, Defendant.
ORDER
United States Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch entered Findings and Recommendation in this matter on October 4, 2018. Neither party objected and therefore they are not entitled to de novo review of the record. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1); United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121 (9th Cir. 2003). This Court will review the Findings and Recommendation for clear error. McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Commodore Bus. Mach., Inc., 656 F.2d 1309, 1313 (9th Cir. 1981). Clear error exists if the Court is left with a "definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed." United States v. Syrax, 235 F.3d 422, 427 (9th Cir. 2000).
Judge Lynch recommended this Court accept Mark Rockwell Gies's guilty plea after Gies appeared before him pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, and entered a plea of guilty to one count of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) (Count II) as set forth in the Indictment. In exchange for Defendant's plea, the United States has agreed to dismiss Count I of the Indictment.
I find no clear error in Judge Lynch's Findings and Recommendation (Doc. 20), and I adopt them in full, including the recommendation to defer acceptance of the Plea Agreement until sentencing when the Court will have reviewed the Plea Agreement and Presentence Investigation Report.
Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that Mark Rockwell Gies's motion to change plea (Doc. 12) is GRANTED and Mark Rockwell Gies is adjudged guilty as charged in Count II of the Indictment.
DATED this 25th day of October, 2018.
/s/_________
Dana L. Christensen, Chief District Judge
United States District Court