Gonzalez

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 04-10041 v.  D.C. No.

CR-01-01696-RCC

GONZALEZ, INC. dba GOLDEN STATE

TRANSPORTATION, OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Raner C. Collins, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 7, 2004—San Francisco, California

Filed June 22, 2005

Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge D.W. Nelson COUNSEL

Bruce M. Ferg, (argued); Paul K. Charlton and Christina M. Cabanillas (on the briefs), Office of the U.S. Attorney, Tuc- son, Arizona, for the plaintiff-appellant.

William Kirchner (argued) and Walter Nash (on the briefs), Nash & Kirchner, P.C., Tucson, Arizona; Jefferson Keenan (on the briefs) and Michael Piccarreta (argued), Piccarreta & Davis, P.C., Tucson, for the defendants-appellees.

OPINION

D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge:

The government appeals the district court order granting in part defendants’ motion to suppress evidence…