Aukai

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 04-10226 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-03-00062-1-HG

DANIEL KUUALOHA AUKAI,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Helen Gillmor, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted May 11, 2005—Honolulu, Hawaii

Filed March 17, 2006

Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Consuelo M. Callahan, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bea

2837 2840 UNITED STATES v. AUKAI

COUNSEL

Edward H. Kubo, Jr., United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii, and Thomas J. Brady, Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii, for plaintiff-appellee the United States of America.

Pamela O’Leary Tower, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant- appellant Daniel Kuualoha Aukai. UNITED STATES v. AUKAI 2841

OPINION

BEA, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether a prospective commercial airline passenger, who presented no identification at check-in, and who voluntarily walked through a metal detector without set- ting off an alarm, can then…