Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David T. HOLT, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1983-04-27
Citations: 704 F.2d 1140
Docket Number: No. 82-1462
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David T. HOLT, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before GOODWIN, KENNEDY and ALARCON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 704
Pages: 1140–1140

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David T. HOLT, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 82-1462.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted March 28, 1983.
Decided April 27, 1983.
James Kyle Gee, Henrikson & Gee, Oakland, Cal., for defendant-appellant.
Joseph M. Burton, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.
Before GOODWIN, KENNEDY and ALARCON, Circuit Judges.
The panel is unanimously of the opinion that oral argument is not required in this case. Fed. R.App.P. 34(a).

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
The appellant, David T. Holt, contends that the district court was required to hold a hearing on his Rule 35 motion for modification of sentence. Fed.R.Crim.P. 35. The district court's decision not to hold a hearing in a Rule 35 proceeding will be reversed only when the district court has abused its discretion, United States v. Krueger, 454 F.2d 1154 (9th Cir.1972). Holt has demonstrated no such abuse. The motion and attached affidavits in this case made an ample record, and it does not appear from the appeal that any additional information would have been adduced at an oral hearing.
The case of United States v. Ginzburg, 398 F.2d 52 (3d Cir.1969), is distinguishable, for there the applicable substantive law had changed after sentencing, and a hearing was deemed useful to present additional evidence that might have led to a modification of the sentence.
It may well have been that here, as in many other criminal proceedings, the sentencing phase of the case was the one of most importance to the defendant, and we would have been more comfortable with the matter had the hearing been held. Nevertheless, we cannot say that the trial court abused its discretion.
AFFIRMED.