Weng

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS NOV 25 2025

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 25-1088 D.C. No. Plaintiff - Appellant, 1:24-cr-00011-RVM-1 v.

MEMORANDUM*

MEIFANG WENG,

Defendant - Appellee.

Appeal from the District of Northern Mariana Islands Ramona V. Manglona, Chief District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted September 24, 2025 Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

Before: MURGUIA, Chief Judge, and McKEOWN and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

A jury found Meifang Weng (“Weng”) guilty of conspiring to transport, as

well as aiding and abetting the transportation of, a noncitizen who has come to,

entered, or remains in the United States unlawfully under 8 U.S.C. § 1324

(a)(1)(A)(ii) and (v)(I)-(II). After trial, the district court granted Weng’s renewed

motion for judgment of acquittal based on insufficient evidence of her specific

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. intent to further the illegal presence of another…