Simtob

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 06-30120 v.  D.C. No.

SOLOMON BITTON SIMTOB, CR-96-00025-SEH

Defendant-Appellant. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 06-30275 v.  D.C. No.

CR-05-00130-SEH

SOLOMON BITTON SIMTOB, aka Simon Simtob, OPINION Defendant-Appellant.  Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Montana Sam E. Haddon, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 8, 2007—Seattle, Washington

Filed May 11, 2007

Before: Raymond C. Fisher and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges, and David Alan Ezra,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Ezra

*The Honorable David Alan Ezra, United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation.

5563 5566 UNITED STATES v. SIMTOB

COUNSEL

Anthony R. Gallagher, Federal Defender, David F. Ness (argued), Assistant Federal Defender, Great Falls, Montana, for the appellant.

William M. Mercer, United States…