Salazar

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 04-50392 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  CR-03-00026-

LEONEL SALAZAR, AHS-

Defendant-Appellant.  ORDER

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Alicemarie H. Stotler, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 8, 2006—Pasadena, California

Filed April 10, 2006

Before: Susan P. Graber, Kim McLane Wardlaw, and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges.

Order; Concurrence by Judge Rawlinson

COUNSEL

Jonathan D. Libby, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California, for the defendant-appellant.

Nguyen-Hong K. Hoang, Assistant United States Attorney, Santa Ana, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.

3975 3976 UNITED STATES v. SALAZAR

ORDER

Leonel Salazar was convicted under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2(b) and 2071(a) on Counts 3 and 6 of an indictment charging him with destroying and causing others to destroy documents filed and deposited with the Immigration and Naturalization Ser- vice (INS) at the California Service Center (CSC)…