Hagege

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 04-50425 v.  D.C. No.

CHARLY SION HAGEGE, CR-03-00965-FMC

Defendant-Appellee. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 04-50427 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-03-00965-FMC

CHARLY SION HAGEGE,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Florence Marie Cooper, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 6, 2005—Pasadena, California

Filed February 22, 2006

Before: Harry Pregerson, Robert E. Cowen,* and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Cowen

*The Honorable Robert E. Cowen, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Elana Shavit Artson, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, for the plaintiff/appellant/appellee.

Stanley L. Friedman, Esq., Los Angeles, for the defendant/ appellee/appellant.

OPINION

COWEN, Circuit Judge:

The United States…