Court Opinion

ID: 9856857
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 07:02:22.308367+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:37:28.024630
License: Public Domain

TASHIMA, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the judgment and all of the en banc court’s opinion, except for the second sentence of the first paragraph, and write briefly to explain my position.
This case was taken en banc on the issue of whether the three-judge panel overstepped its authority in holding that United States v. Hill, 915 F.2d 502 (9th Cir. 1990), had been overruled by the 1993 amendment of application note 1 of U.S.S.G. § 3B1.3. See United States v. Contreras, 581 F.3d 1163, 1164, 1168-69 (9th Cir.2009) (“Contreras I ”). The three-judge panel’s mode of analysis is set forth in Contreras I, id. at 1167-68. By vacating that portion of Contreras I, although adopting the remainder of the three-judge panel’s opinion, the en banc court has disapproved of that mode of analysis. Although the reasons for its disapproval are unexpressed, presumably they are bottomed on the en banc court’s reading of circuit precedent, particularly Miller v. Gammie, 335 F.3d 889 (9th Cir.2003) (en banc).
I continue to abide by the three-judge panel’s reading and application of circuit precedent in the circumstances of this case and adhere to that portion of my opinion in Contreras I. With that caveat, I join in the court’s opinion.