Richard

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 06-10377 v.  D.C. No.

JACQUAN LEE RICHARD, CR-04-00477-JCM

Defendant-Appellee. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 06-10380 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  CR-04-00477-JCM/

JACQUAN LEE RICHARD, PAL

Defendant-Appellant.  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada James C. Mahan, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 13, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed October 12, 2007

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Michael Daly Hawkins, and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Hawkins; Dissent by Judge O’Scannlain

13857 UNITED STATES v. RICHARD 13859

COUNSEL

Robert L. Ellman (argued) and Brian J. Quarles, Assistant United States Attorneys, United States Attorney for the Dis- trict of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the plaintiff-appellant (No. 06-10377), plaintiff-appellee (No. 06-10380).

Anne R. Traum, Assistant Federal Public…