United States v. Smith

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 05-50375 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v. CR 03-728-PA

MALIK SMITH,  ORDER

Defendant-Appellant. AMENDING

OPINION AND

AMENDED

 OPINION

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 Amended April 9, 2009

Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief 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…