Calderon-Segura
United States v. Calderon-Segura
Opinion
Opinion
Brunetti COUNSEL, J.
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 05-50820 v. D.C. No.
CR-05-00381-TJW
ABRAHAM CALDERON-SEGURA,
A.K.A. Abraham Calderon, OPINION Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Thomas J. Whelan, District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted December 7, 2006—Pasadena, California
Filed January 9, 2008
Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Stephen Reinhardt and Melvin Brunetti, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge Brunetti COUNSEL
James Fife and Zaki Zehawi, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, California, for the defendant-appellant.
Hamilton E. Arendsen, Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.
OPINION
BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge:
Abraham Calderon-Segura, a native and citizen of Mexico, was arrested in 2005 by United States Border Patrol agents after they found him hiding in the brush about one mile north of the U.S.-Mexico border. He was indicted by a grand jury and convicted after a jury trial as an…