Miranda-Guerena

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 05-10198 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  CR-02-00485-JMR/

FRANK MIRANDA-GUERENA, BPV

Defendant-Appellant.  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona John M. Roll, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 16, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed April 25, 2006

Before: Arthur L. Alarcón and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges, and H. Russel Holland,* Senior District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Alarcón; Concurrence by Judge McKeown

*The Honorable H. Russel Holland, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Robert L. Murray, Tucson, Arizona, for the defendant- appellant.

Robert L. Miskell, Assistant United States Attorney, Tucson, Arizona, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge:

Frank Miranda-Guerena appeals from the district court’s order denying his motion to suppress evidence following…