Trimble

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 06-30298 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-05-05826-FDB

SAHNEEWA TRIMBLE,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Franklin D. Burgess, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 8, 2007—Seattle, Washington

Filed May 30, 2007

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, A. Wallace Tashima, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Berzon; Concurrence by Judge O’Scannlain COUNSEL

Jerome Kuh, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Tacoma, Washington, for the appellant.

Barbara J. Sievers, Assistant United States Attorney, Seattle, Washington, for the appellee.

OPINION

BERZON, Circuit Judge:

The Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791. The United States produced its first automobile in 1877, and the first traffic ticket issued in 1904.

Fast forward to 2005: Sahneewa Trimble was issued sev- eral traffic tickets, fairly serious ones, on a military base. She believed that she was charged too much — more than other drivers who…