Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lance VAN ALSTYNE, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-08-04
Citations: 143 F. App'x 45
Docket Number: No. 02-50027; D.C. No. CR-98-00118-AHS-01
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff—Appellee, v. Lance VAN ALSTYNE, Defendant—Appellant.
Judges: Before BEEZER and FISHER, Circuit Judges, and ENGLAND, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 143
Pages: 45–46

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff—Appellee, v. Lance VAN ALSTYNE, Defendant—Appellant.
No. 02-50027.
D.C. No. CR-98-00118-AHS-01.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Aug. 4, 2005.
Robert McGahan, Asst. U.S. Atty., Office of the U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Susan R. Ficcadenti, Kevin E. Smith, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Santa Ana, CA, William S. Harris, Stewart & Harris, South Pasadena, CA, for Defendanf>-Appellant.
Before BEEZER and FISHER, Circuit Judges, and ENGLAND, District Judge.
The Honorable Morrison C. England, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
In a prior disposition, we affirmed the conviction and sentence of defendant-appellant Lance Van Alstyne. Van Alstyne later filed a petition for certiorari before the United States Supreme Court, which granted the petition, vacated our judgment and remanded the case to us for further consideration in light of United States v. Booker, — U.S. -, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005). Because the Sentencing Guidelines are no longer binding after the Court's decision in Booker—and we cannot ascertain whether the district court would have imposed a different sentence under a discretionary regime—we remand to the district court for reconsideration of Van Alstyne's sentence in light of United States v. Ameline, 409 F.3d 1073 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc). Van Alstyne's conviction is affirmed for the reasons stated in our prior disposition.
Conviction AFFIRMED; REMANDED for sentence proceedings.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.