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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 331', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 1291', '§ 1', '§ 2', 'In Fine']

filed*fn*: January 28, 1993.
CRAIG VON MITCHELL, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. D.C. No. CR-89-0059-02-K. Judith N. Keep, District Judge, Presiding.
Before: Thomas Tang, Harry Pregerson, and Arthur L. Alarcon, Circuit Judges.
Craig Von Mitchell appeals his sentence imposed under the United States Sentencing Guidelines following our remand in United States v. Shields, 939 F.2d 780 (9th Cir. 1992). Von Mitchell's original appeal was consolidated with that of codefendant Jon Barton Shields. Von Mitchell was convicted by guilty plea of introducing steroids in interstate commerce without a prescription and aiding and abetting in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 331(a), 333(b) and 18 U.S.C. § 2. Von Mitchell contends the district court erred by relying on conduct contained in dismissed counts of the indictment when deciding to depart from the sentencing range established by application of U.S.S.G. § 2N2.1 ("Violations of Statutes and Regulations Dealing With Any Food, Drug, Biological Product, Device, Cosmetic, or Agricultural Product"). Alternatively, Von Mitchell argues that the district court should have applied U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(c)(19), which, as revised after the original sentencing date, would apply to the offense of conviction. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
On Von Mitchell's first appeal, we held that the district court could properly consider the conduct involved in the dismissed counts as relevant conduct pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3, and that this conduct could form the basis for an upward departure from the applicable Guidelines range calculated under section 2N2.1. Shields, 939 F.2d 782 at 782-83 . Our recent en banc reaffirmation in United States v. Fine, 975 F.2d 596 (9th Cir. 1992) (en banc), of the continued vitality of both United States v. Faulkner, 952 F.2d 1066 (9th Cir. 1991) and United States v. Castro-Cervantes, 927 F.2d 1079 (9th Cir. 1991) makes it inappropriate to affirm Von Mitchell's sentence based on the rationale of Shields, 939 F.2d 780.
U.S.S.G. § 2F1.1
In Fine, we held that conduct charged in dismissed counts of an indictment may be counted as relevant conduct when establishing a defendant's offense level under section 2F1.1, even if the counts were dismissed pursuant to a plea bargain. See Fine, 975 F.2d 599 at 599-600, 602 . Accordingly, the district court did not err by taking into account as relevant conduct quantities of steroids involved in the dismissed counts of the indictment. See id.; see also United States v. Cambra, 933 F.2d 752, 755-56 (9th Cir. 1991) (where steroid ...