Saavedra-Velazquez

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 08-10078 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  CR07-065-LRH-

JOSE MARTIN SAAVEDRA- RAM

VELAZQUEZ,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Larry R. Hicks, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 14, 2009—San Francisco, California

Filed August 21, 2009

Before: Stephen Reinhardt, Eugene E. Siler, Jr.,* and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Reinhardt; Special Concurrence by Judge Reinhardt

*The Honorable Eugene E. Siler, Jr., Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Michael K. Powell, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Reno, Nevada, for the defendant-appellant.

Gregory Bower, United States Attorney, Robert L. Ellman, Appellate Chief, Elizabeth A. Olson and Ronald C. Rachow, Assistant United States Attorneys, Reno, Nevada, for the plaintiff-appellee. 11544 UNITED STATES v.…