Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-05-17 18:00:37.556722+00
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FILED
                           NOT FOR PUBLICATION
                                                                              MAY 17 2023
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                         MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                            U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                        No.   22-10159

              Plaintiff-Appellant,               D.C. No.
                                                 2:14-cr-00280-JCM-GWF-1
 v.

DOMINQUE WELLS,                                  MEMORANDUM*

              Defendant-Appellee.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                             for the District of Nevada
                     James C. Mahan, District Judge, Presiding

                        Argued and Submitted May 11, 2023
                             San Francisco, California

Before: S.R. THOMAS, CHRISTEN, and BRESS, Circuit Judges.

      The Government appeals a district court decision granting Dominque Wells

compassionate release and reducing his sentence from 107 years and one day to ten

years pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28

U.S.C. § 1291.

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      On appeal, one of the parties’ primary points of disagreement is whether the

district court’s order complied with United States v. Chen, 48 F.4th 1092 (9th Cir.

2022). However, Chen was decided after the district court issued its order in this

case, so the district court did not have the benefit of the opinion. Therefore, we

remand this case to the district court for reconsideration of its order in light of

Chen. We express no opinion now as to the impact of Chen and do not prejudge

the outcome of that inquiry.

      REMANDED.

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