Rodriguez-Rodriguez

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 03-50146 v.  D.C. No.

JORGE RODRIGUEZ-RODRIGUEZ, CR-02-02456-MJL

Defendant-Appellee. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 03-50147 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  CR-02-02456-MJL

JORGE RODRIGUEZ-RODRIGUEZ, ORDER AND

Defendant-Appellant. AMENDED  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California M. James Lorenz, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 30, 2004—Pasadena, California

Filed April 20, 2004 Amended January 5, 2005

Before: Cynthia Holcomb Hall, Stephen S. Trott, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Trott COUNSEL

Carol C. Lam, United States Attorney, Deborah J. Rhodes, Assistant U.S. Attorney (on the brief), Lawrence E. Spong, Assistant U.S. Attorney (at oral argument), United States Attorney’s Office, San Diego, California, for the plaintiff- appellant/cross-appellee.

Steven F. Hubacheck and Vincent J. Brunkow,…