U.S. v. ORTEGA LOPEZ

Nos. CR 88-050-R, CR 88-087-RMT, CR 88-133-MRP, CR 88-007-TJH, CR 88-114-KN, CR 87-1034-CBM, CR 88-095-CBM, CR 87-998-PAR, CR 88-075-HLH, CR 87-1035-WJR, CR 88-109-FFF, CR 87-974-SVW, CR 87-986-SVW, CR 88-012-SVW, CR 88-117-SVW, CR 88-002-JSL, CR 88-005-JSL, CR 88-073-DT, CR 88-066-RSWL, CR 87-963-AAH, CR 87-992-DT and CR 87-1011-RJK.

684 F.Supp. 1506 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Margarito ORTEGA LOPEZ, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Oscar Alberto HUEZO-QUEZADA, Alfredo Medina-Ortega, Raul Ortiz-Flores, Cesar Cruz-Platero, Juan Francisco Felix-Sosa, Alfredo Martinez-Martinez, Thomas Melesio-Salazar, Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Paul Bernard Rushton ROSS, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Sirous SADAFI, Siew Meng Lui, Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Randolph De CARO, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Bryan Maurice ROGER, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. William BLAIR, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Vagan SAMVELIAN, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Jerry Raymond ALLEN, Jr., Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Bobby Ray FINCH, Sidney Boddie, Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Jack Ernest CONKLIN, Jr., Martha Gaines Conklin, Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Felesio N. BYRD, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff v. Esparaza R. BATELLO, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Donald O. ZALESKI, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Rigoberto PELLEGAUD, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Wade Joseph DRIGGERS, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Ron Mack EMMETT, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Carlos Mario MONTOYA, a/k/a Roman Alboran, a/k/a Mauro Lopez; Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Mark Nevin BOWDEN, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Douglas SHARP, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Julio RENGIFO-SANCHEZ, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Alvaro GIRALDO, Defendant.

United States District Court, C.D. California, En Banc.

May 5, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlton F. Gunn., Deputy Federal Public Defender, Central Dist. of Cal., Los Angeles, Cal., for all defendants.

David Anderson, Federal Programs Branch, Civil Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the government as plaintiff, and the separate Asst. U.S. Attys. in each case.

Donald A. Purdy, Jr., Deputy Gen. Counsel, U.S. Sentencing Commission, Washington, D.C., for the Commission, as amicus curiae.

Before the Court EN BANC.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HAUK, Senior District Judge.

Before this en banc panel of the Court are motions of the defendants in the abovecaptioned cases to declare the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 ("Act") and sentencing guidelines ("Guidelines") promulgated thereunder by the United States Sentencing Commission ("Commission") to be unconstitutional. This en banc panel was authorized by the Court in its Order...

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