U.S. v. Lacey, 80-2052
| Decision Date | 09 November 1981 |
| Docket Number | No. 80-2052,80-2052 |
| Citation | 661 F.2d 1021 |
| Parties | UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rick R. LACEY, Defendant-Appellant. Summary Calendar. . Unit A * |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit |
Ernest Moulos, Wichita, Kans., for defendant-appellant.
James R. Gough, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for the U. S.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Before BROWN, POLITZ, and TATE, Circuit Judges.
The defendant Lacey appeals from the revocation of his probation. Earlier, we remanded these proceedings because we found the findings upon which the revocation was based were inadequate to review Lacey's contentions. 648 F.2d 441 (5th Cir. 1981). Although our decree was somewhat ambiguous, we intended that, upon the district court's entering findings, the appellant could seek further review by filing a certified copy of the district court's findings plus any supplementary briefs and materials, without the necessity of filing a new notice of appeal. See Chaney v. Schweiker, 659 F.2d 676, 679 at n.5 (5th Cir. 1981); United States v. Gaston, 608 F.2d 607, 614 at n.3 (5th Cir. 1979). This, in fact, was the procedure followed. After reviewing the district court's findings of fact and conclusions of law on remand set forth by its memorandum order filed October 7, 1981, we affirm the revocation of probation.
Our remand was occasioned by our concern, in the absence of a specific finding, that the district court in revoking probation and denying a reduction of the five-year sentence of imprisonment originally imposed may have given credence to hearsay summary testimony indicating more extended criminal conduct than that proved at the revocation hearing. No evidence, other than the hearsay summary, was presented as to the charge that Lacey had traveled outside the district of his probation to North Carolina, where he transacted business under an assumed name. On the remand, the district court found that there was no evidence to support this charge, but stated that it had not based its revocation upon it. (The district court also found that the evidence was insufficient to show that the defendant was in possession of a small quantity of marijuana found in a nearby automobile at the time that Lacey was arrested for possession of 48.82 grams of methamphetamine.)
However, the district court found that the evidence clearly proved that the defendant was in possession of the 48.82 grams of methamphetamine and had passed the substance to another on September 19, 1978, when he was then arrested. The court also noted that, with primary emphasis on this offense alone, it revoked Lacey's probation and re-imposed the original sentence of five years imprisonment. (The court further found that the evidence showed that at the time of the arrest Lacey was using a driver's license in the name of another in violation of a Kansas misdemeanor statute, also a violation of the condition of probation.)
On this further appeal, the defendant Lacey argues that the evidence was insufficient to support these findings, and that, at any rate the court abused its discretion in...
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