UNITED STATES v. KOUWENHOVEN

No. 78-1415.

602 F.2d 234 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Augustinus Petrus Maria KOUWENHOVEN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

August 15, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore R. Naimy, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant-appellant.

Douglas W. Lofgren, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WRIGHT and TANG, Circuit Judges, and SOLOMON, District Judge.


EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

The defendant appeals from an order denying his motion for reduction of sentence, urging that the sentencing judge abused his discretion and that the resulting sentence constituted cruel and unusual punishment and violated the double jeopardy and due process clauses of the Fifth Amendment. We affirm.

Defendant, a citizen of the Netherlands, pleaded guilty on May 25, 1977 to conspiracy to dispose of stolen paintings in foreign...

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