Salman
United States v. Salman
Opinion
Opinion
Gould COUNSEL, J.
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 05-10093 Plaintiff-Appellee, v. D.C. No.
CR-03-00197-LRH
ALBERT R. SALMAN,
OPINION
Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Larry R. Hicks, District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted June 9, 2008—San Francisco, California
Filed July 7, 2008
Before: A. Wallace Tashima, M. Margaret McKeown, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge Gould COUNSEL
Franny Forsman, Federal Public Defender, and Michael K. Powell, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Reno, Nevada, for the defendant-appellant. 8122 UNITED STATES v. SALMAN Gregory A. Brower, United States Attorney, Robert L. Ell- man, Appellate Chief, and Elizabeth A. Olson, Assistant United States Attorney, Reno, Nevada, for the plaintiff- appellee.
OPINION
GOULD, Circuit Judge:
Albert R. Salman appeals his convictions for two counts of passing a fictitious financial instrument, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 514(a)(2), and two counts of attempting corruptly to interfere with the…