United States v. Efrain Rivera-Ramos

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 08-10174 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  4:07-cr-00307-RCC-

EFRAIN RIVERA-RAMOS, HCE-

Defendant-Appellant.  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Raner C. Collins, 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

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

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COUNSEL

Roger H. Sigal, Tucson, Arizona, for the defendant-appellant.

Diane J. Humetewa, United States Attorney, and Angela W. Woodridge, Assistant United States Attorney, Tucson, Ari- zona, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether New York’s definition of “at- tempt” is categorically broader than the common…