Opinion ID: 674373
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Heading: Sentence in Violation of Plea Agreement

Text: 10 Generally, when probation is revoked the district court may impose any sentence that was available at the time of the initial sentencing. 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3565(a); see United States v. Dixon, 952 F.2d 260, 261-62 (9th Cir.1991). Powers argues that the only sentence available was the term of probation that the government agreed to recommend in the plea agreement. Thus, she concludes, the district court violated the plea agreement by sentencing her to a term of imprisonment when probation was revoked. 11 We disagree. Sentence was initially imposed in accordance with the plea agreement. The government had already performed the promise it made in that agreement. It did recommend probation, and Powers got probation. It was not forever bound to recommend only probation, regardless of Powers' conduct. See United States v. Gerace, 997 F.2d 1293, 1294-95 (9th Cir.1993). United States v. Norgaard, 959 F.2d 136, 138 (9th Cir.1992), does not govern this situation. In Norgaard, sentence was suspended and was not imposed until after probation was revoked. At that time, the plea agreement for concurrent terms of imprisonment had to be enforced. When, as here, sentence was imposed in accordance with the plea agreement, Norgaard does not require that the agreed upon sentence be imposed again and again and again upon each revocation of probation. Cf. United States v. Granderson, --- U.S. ----, 114 S.Ct. 1259, 1263, 127 L.Ed.2d 611 (1994).