U.S. v. VAN LOBEN SELS

No. 98-10355.

198 F.3d 1161 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Wilfred Page VAN LOBEN SELS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 30, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Searles, Assistant United States Attorney, Sacramento, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Christopher H. Wing, Sacramento, California, for the defendant-appellee.

Before: SNEED and PREGERSON, Circuit Judges, and CARTER, District Judge.


CARTER, District Judge:

The United States appeals the sentence imposed by the district court following Wilfred Page Van Loben Sels' guilty plea to the misdemeanor charge of negligently discharging oily wastewater contaminated with benzene into the Los Angeles sanitary sewer system, in violation of the Clean Water Act ("CWA"), 33 U.S.C. §§ 1317(d), 1319(c)(1)(A), and Los Angeles Municipal Code ("LAMC") § 64.30. The Government contends that the district...

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