Court Opinion

ID: 9457994
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 20:40:15.812757+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:36.245897
License: Public Domain

ELY, Circuit Judge
(dissenting):
I respectfully dissent. The majority’s opinion is reasoned with careful intricacy, but I find myself unable to follow, to the end, the maze through which my Brothers wind to their conclusion. As I see it, the straight path has been marked by Weber v. United States, 402 U.S. 939, 91 S.Ct. 1633, 29 L.Ed.2d 107 (1971), vacating and remanding 429 F.2d 148 (9th Cir. 1970), and Castro v. United States, 403 U.S. 903, 91 S.Ct. 2215, 29 L.Ed.2d 678, vacating and remanding 436 F.2d 975 (9th Cir. 1971). See also Qui-jada Gaxiola v. United States, 435 F.2d 264, 266 (9th Cir. 1970) (concurring opinion). Following that path, I would vacate the conviction and remand the cause to the District Court for its reconsideration in the light of the new guidelines that I have specified and which have so recently been set.