Case ID: f-appx_653/html/0873-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lorenzo ESPINOZA, AKA Seal A, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 13-50443
    United States Court of.Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    FILED May 31, 2016
    
      Jean-Claude Andre, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Devon Myers, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Davina T. Chen, Attorney, Law Office of Davina T. Chen, Glendale, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before: PREGERSONand CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges and BASTIAN, District Judge.
    
      
       The Honorable Stanley Allen Bastían, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, sitting by designation.
    
   ORDER

Judge Pregerson and Judge Bastían have voted to grant the petition for panel rehearing. Judge Callahan has voted to deny the petition for panel rehearing. The petition for panel rehearing is GRANTED.

Reassignment is necessary to preserve the appearance of justice. We instruct the Clerk of Court for the Central District of California to reassign this case to a different district court judge upon remand.

CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge,

dissenting:

I dissent from the grant of the petition for rehearing. Here, the district court’s error was only failing to give the parties notice that it would consider confidential Presentence Investigative Reports of other defendants. Accordingly, there is no need to depart from our general rule that resen-tencing is to be done by the original sentencing judge. United States v. Acosta-Chavez, 727 F.3d 903, 910 (9th Cir. 2013). Because there is no need for the district judge to put the reports out of his mind, reassignment is not necessary to preserve the appearance of justice. See United States v. Mikaelian, 168 F.3d 380, 387-88 (9th Cir. 1999). The reassignment is an unnecessary and undeserved slap at the district judge as well as a “waste and duplication out of proportion to any gain in preserving the appearance of fairness.” Id.