Hall

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 04-50193 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-01-01084-1-NAJ

WILLIAM LEWIS HALL,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Napoleon A. Jones, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 18, 2005—Pasadena, California

Filed August 15, 2005

Before: A. Wallace Tashima, Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges, and Raner C. Collins, District Judge.*

Opinion by Judge Wardlaw

*The Honorable Raner C. Collins, United States District Judge for the District of Arizona, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Mark F. Adams, San Diego, California, for the appellant.

Carol C. Lam, United States Attorney, San Diego, California, for the appellee. UNITED STATES v. HALL 10625

OPINION

WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront testimonial witnesses established in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), applies to the admission of hearsay evidence…