Opinion
No. 06-50019.
Submission deferred December 4, 2006. Submitted July 26, 2007.
This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed.R.App.P. 34(a)(2).
Filed July 30, 2007.
Becky S. Walker, Esq., USLA-Office of the U.S. Attorney Criminal Division, Los Angeles, CA, Sean K Lokey, Esq., USR-Office of the U.S. Attorney, Riverside, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Jonathan D. Libby, Esq., FPDCA-Federal Public Defender's Office, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Virginia A. Phillips, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CR-03-00079-VAP.
Before: REINHARDT, KOZINSKI and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
" Ameline provides no right for a defendant even to be present during" a hearing. United States v. Silva, 472 F.3d 683, 686 (9th Cir. 2007). Defendant wasn't entitled to be present at the limited remand hearing as a matter of Due Process because an Ameline remand requires only that the district court make a subjective determination about what it would have done had it known the Guidelines were advisory. It is therefore not a critical stage in the proceedings. Kentucky v. Stincer, 482 U.S. 730, 745, 107 S.Ct. 2658, 96 L.Ed.2d 631 (1987). Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43 doesn't apply because an Ameline remand isn't a "sentencing" proceeding within the meaning of that rule. Fed.R.Crim.P. 43(a)(3).
AFFIRMED.