U.S. v. STORY

No. 09-6261.

635 F.3d 1241 (2011)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Amber Elaine STORY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

February 22, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Antonio Lacy , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Oklahoma City, OK, for Appellant.

Jonathon E. Boatman , Assistant United States Attorney ( Sanford C. Coats , United States Attorney, and Timothy W. Ogilvie , Assistant United States Attorney, with him on the briefs) Office the United States Attorney, Oklahoma City, OK, for Appellee.

Before HARTZ, SEYMOUR, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.


TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

The district court sentenced Amber Elaine Story to additional time in prison so that she might be eligible for a drug rehabilitation program available only to prisoners serving 24 months or more. She now challenges her sentence, claiming it violates 18 U.S.C. § 3582(a), which directs sentencing judges to "recognize that imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation...

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