United States v. Aifang Ye

ORDER

The opinion filed July 10, 2015, appearing at 792 F.3d 1164 , is hereby amended as follows:

The language of footnote 2 is added to the opinion:

With this amendment, the panel has unanimously voted to deny appellant’s petition for rehearing and petition for rehearing en banc. The full court has been advised of the petition for rehearing en banc, and no judge has requested a vote on whether to rehear the matter en banc. Fed. R.App. P. 35. The petitions for rehearing and rehearing en banc are DENIED. Further petitions for rehearing and rehearing en banc shall not be entertained.

OPINION

Following a jury trial, Aifang Ye appeals her convictions relating to the provision of false information on a passport application. She argues that the district court’s jury instructions erroneously failed to condition her convictions on a finding that she in tended to violate the passport laws. We hold that the crimes for which Ye was convicted are not specific intent crimes, so her challenges to the jury instructions fail. Ye’s additional argument that the government’s failure to call certain translators as witnesses at trial violated her rights under the Confrontation Clause is…