Aukai

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 04-10226 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-03-00062-1-HG

DANIEL KUUALOHA AUKAI,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Helen Gillmor, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted En Banc March 21, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed August 10, 2007

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge, Alex Kozinski, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Michael Daly Hawkins, Barry G. Silverman, Susan P. Graber, M. Margaret McKeown, Kim McLane Wardlaw, William A. Fletcher, Ronald M. Gould, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Jay S. Bybee, Consuelo M. Callahan, Carlos T. Bea, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bea; Concurrence by Judge Graber

9647 9650 UNITED STATES v. AUKAI

COUNSEL

Pamela O’Leary Tower, Esq., Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant-appellant Daniel Kuualoha Aukai.

Thomas J. Brady, Esq., Assistant United States Attorney, Dis- trict of Hawaii and John A. Drennan, Esq, United States Department of Justice Criminal Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for…