United States v. Smith
Opinion
Opinion
HAWKINS, J.
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 05-50375 Plaintiff-Appellee, v. D.C. No.
CR 03-728-PA
MALIK SMITH,
OPINION
Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Percy Anderson, District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted December 17, 2008—Pasadena, California
Filed March 24, 2009
Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Circuit Judge, Mary M. Schroeder, Stephen Reinhardt, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Michael Daly Hawkins, Susan P. Graber, Kim McLane Wardlaw, Ronald M. Gould, Richard A. Paez, Marsha S. Berzon, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge Hawkins; Dissent by Judge Berzon COUNSEL
Davina T. Chen, Deputy Federal Public Defender (authored briefs and presented oral argument), Los Angeles, California, for the defendant-appellant.
Erik Michael Silber, Assistant United States Attorney (pre- sented oral argument), and Craig H. Missakian, Assistant United States Attorney (authored brief), Los Angeles, Califor- nia, for the plaintiff-appellee.