Esparaza-Herrera
United States v. Esparaza-Herrera
Opinion
Opinion
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 07-30490 v. D.C. No.
CR-06-00219-BLW
GERARDO ESPARZA-HERRERA, a.k.a. Omar Brabo Beltran, OPINION Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Idaho B. Lynn Winmill, District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted December 11, 2008—Seattle, Washington
Filed February 25, 2009
Before: Ronald M. Gould, Richard C. Tallman, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.
Per Curiam Opinion; Concurrence by Judge Gould COUNSEL
David E. Hollar, United States Department of Justice, Wash- ington, DC, for the plaintiff-appellant.
Thomas Monaghan, Federal Public Defender Services of Idaho, Biose, Idaho, for the defendant-appellee.
OPINION
PER CURIAM:
The United States Government appeals the district court’s ruling that Gerardo Esparza-Herrera’s prior conviction for 2276 UNITED STATES v. ESPARZA-HERRERA aggravated assault under Arizona Revised Statutes (“A.R.S”) § 13-1204(A)(11) was not a conviction for a “crime of vio- lence” under…