MUEGLER

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ARTHUR G. MUEGLER, JR., 

Appellant, No. 03-15259 v.  D.C. No.

CV-02-00632-JAT

DAVID J. BENING; ALFRED W.

HARRE, OPINION

Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona James A. Teilborg, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 13, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed June 24, 2005

Before: Donald P. Lay,* Betty B. Fletcher, and Michael Daly Hawkins, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Lay

*The Honorable Donald P. Lay, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Arthur G. Muegler, Jr., Pro se, St. Louis, Missouri, for the appellant.

David G. Waltrip and Chad S. Stockel, St. Louis, Missouri, for the appellees. MUEGLER v. BENING 7565

OPINION

LAY, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Arthur G. Muegler, Jr., was found guilty in fed- eral district court for committing intentional fraud under Mis- souri law. A jury awarded David J. Bening and Alfred W. Harre…