United States of America v. BRUCE R. SANDS, Jr.

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
BRUCE R. SANDS, Jr.,
Defendant-Appellant.
No. 16-50293
D.C. No. 2:13-cr-00489-GW
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Central District of California
George H. Wu, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted April 11, 2018**
Before: SILVERMAN, PAEZ, and OWENS, Circuit Judges.
Bruce R. Sands, Jr., appeals from the district court’s judgment and
challenges his guilty-plea convictions and 135-month aggregate sentence for mail
fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341; wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
§ 1343; and transactional money laundering, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1957.
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
FILED
APR 13 2018
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

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Pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), Sands’s counsel has filed a
brief stating that there are no grounds for relief, along with a motion to withdraw
as counsel of record. We have provided Sands the opportunity to file a pro se
supplemental brief. No pro se supplemental brief or answering brief has been
filed.
Our independent review of the record pursuant to Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S.
75, 80 (1988), discloses no arguable grounds for relief on direct appeal. However,
we remand the case to the district court with instructions that it strike special
condition of supervised release number four on page two of the judgment because
this condition was not imposed orally at sentencing. See United States v. Napier,
463 F.3d 1040, 1042 (9th Cir. 2006).
Counsel’s motion to withdraw is GRANTED.
AFFIRMED; REMANDED to correct the judgment.

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