Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit November 17, 2003, No. 02-10178 (United States v. Malta)

MEMORANDUM *

Ronald Malta pled guilty to, and was convicted of, using a communications facility to facilitate a drug-trafficking crime, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 843(b) and of conspiring to possess crystal methamphetamine (“ice”) with the intent to distribute it, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846.