Whitehead

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 05-50458 Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. v.  CR-03-00053-

THOMAS MICHAEL WHITEHEAD, CAS-

Defendant-Appellee. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 05-50506 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  CR-03-00053-

THOMAS MICHAEL WHITEHEAD, CAS-

Defendant-Appellant.  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Christina A. Snyder, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 16, 2006—Pasadena, California

Submission Vacated September 12, 2006 Resubmitted July 14, 2008

Filed July 14, 2008

Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.

Per Curiam Opinion; Dissent by Judge Bybee COUNSEL

Michael J. Raphael and Thomas P. O’Brien, Assistant United States Attorneys; Debra Wong Yang, United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Nina Marino, Kaplan Marino, Beverly Hills, California, for the…