Opinion
No. 18-30232
06-14-2019
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DEZIRAE DAWN LIGHTHIZER, Defendant-Appellant.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
D.C. No. 4:18-cr-00016-BMM-1 MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana
Brian M. Morris, District Judge, Presiding Before: CANBY, GRABER, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
Dezirae Dawn Lighthizer appeals from the district court's judgment and challenges the $4,500 order of restitution imposed following her guilty-plea conviction for counterfeiting obligations or securities of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 471. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
Lighthizer contends that the district court erred by finding that she caused the losses suffered by several of the victims for whom she was ordered to pay restitution. We review the amount of a restitution award for abuse of discretion, and the factual findings supporting an order of restitution for clear error. See United States v. Galan, 804 F.3d 1287, 1289 (9th Cir. 2015). The district court heard testimony from a law enforcement agent linking each of the transactions for which restitution was ordered to the serial numbers of the counterfeit bills that Lighthizer admittedly placed into circulation. On this record, the district court did not clearly err in finding that Lighthizer caused the losses, and it did not abuse its discretion by ordering Lighthizer to pay $4,500 in restitution. See United States v. De La Fuente, 353 F.3d 766, 772-73 (9th Cir. 2003).
AFFIRMED.