Waknine

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 06-50521 v.  D.C. No.

HAI WAKNINE, CR-04-00373-R

Defendant-Appellant. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 06-50713 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-04-00373-R-

HAI WAKNINE,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeals from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Manuel L. Real, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 3, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed September 10, 2008

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Ronald M. Gould, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Gould; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Ikuta

12551 12556 UNITED STATES v. WAKNINE

COUNSEL

Ronald Richards, Beverly Hills, California, David Kenner, Encino, California, for the defendant-appellant.

George S. Cardona, United States Attorney, Thomas P. O’Brien, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Criminal Division, Patrick W. McLaughlin, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California,…