Kwan

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 03-50315 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  CR-96-00433-SVW KWOK CHEE KWAN, aka Jeff Kwan, ORDER AND Defendant-Appellant. AMENDED  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Stephen V. Wilson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 6, 2004—Pasadena, California

Filed May 12, 2005 Amended July 21, 2005

Before: Betty B. Fletcher, John T. Noonan, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Betty Binns Fletcher COUNSEL

David Ross, Ross, Rose & Hammill, LLP, Beverly Hills, Cal- ifornia, for the defendant-appellant.

John Owens, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.

ORDER

The Government’s request in its petition for panel rehear- ing to correct a factual error is granted to the following extent to clarify the opinion, United States of America v. Kwok Chee Kwan, aka Jeff Kwan, slip. op. 5147 filed May 12, 2005.

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