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USA v. Cole, CR 17-28-M-DLC. (2018)

Court: District Court, D. Montana Number: infdco20180103881 Visitors: 9
Filed: Jan. 02, 2018
Latest Update: Jan. 02, 2018
Summary: ORDER DANA L. CHRISTENSEN , District Judge . United States Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch entered Findings and Recommendation in this matter on December 7, 2017. Neither party objected and therefore they are not entitled to de novo review of the record. 28 U.S.C. 636(b)(1); United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114 , 1121 (9th Cir. 2003). This Court will review the Findings and Recommendation for clear error. McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Commodore Bus. Mach., Inc., 656 F.2d 13
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ORDER

United States Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch entered Findings and Recommendation in this matter on December 7, 2017. Neither party objected and therefore they are not entitled to de novo review of the record. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1); United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121 (9th Cir. 2003). This Court will review the Findings and Recommendation for clear error. McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Commodore Bus. Mach., Inc., 656 F.2d 1309, 1313 (9th Cir. 1981). Clear error exists if the Court is left with a "definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed." United States v. Syrax, 235 F.3d 422, 427 (9th Cir. 2000).

Judge Lynch recommended this Court accept Nathan Forrest Hale's guilty plea after Hale appeared before him pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, and entered a plea of guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 846 as set forth in Count I of the Indictment. In exchange for Defendant's plea, the United States has agreed to dismiss Counts III, V, VI and VII of the Indictment.

I find no clear error in Judge Lynch's Findings and Recommendation (Doc. 32), and I adopt them in full, including the recommendation to defer acceptance of the Plea Agreement until sentencing when the Court will have reviewed the Plea Agreement and Presentence Investigation Report.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that Nathan Forrest Hale's motion to change plea (Doc. 22) is GRANTED and Nathan Forrest Hale is adjudged guilty as charged in Count I of the Indictment.

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