Myers

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 23-1034 D.C. No. Plaintiff - Appellee, 2:04-cr-00173-

MKD-

v.

RONALD BRUCE MYERS, AKA

OPINION

Rick LNU, AKA Rick Curtis,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington Mary K. Dimke, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 3, 2024 Seattle, Washington

Filed May 6, 2025

Before: Danny J. Boggs, * M. Margaret McKeown, and Ryan D. Nelson, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge R. Nelson; Dissent by Judge McKeown

* The Honorable Danny J. Boggs, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation. SUMMARY **

Criminal Law/Restitution

The panel affirmed the district court’s order granting the government’s motion to turn over certain funds in Ronald Myers’s inmate trust account and apply them to Myers’s restitution obligation, in a case that presented the question whether a provision of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3664(n), applies to the gradual accumulation of cash deposits from…