Transfiguracion

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 04-10457 v.  D.C. No.

LYNDA L. TRANSFIGURACION, CR-01-00099-4-JCC

Defendant-Appellee. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 04-10458 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CR-01-00099-2-JCC

THUY DAO,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Guam John C. Coughenour, Chief Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted September 16, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed April 5, 2006

Before: Betty B. Fletcher, John R. Gibson,* and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Berzon; Dissent by Judge Gibson

*The Honorable John R. Gibson, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Leonardo M. Rapadas, United States Attorney, & Marivic P. David, Assistant United States Attorney, Hagåtña, Guam, for plaintiff-appellant United States of America. 3806 UNITED STATES v. TRANSFIGURACION William Gavras,…