United States v. Bernardo Mancinas-Flores

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 08-10094 v. BERNARDO MANCINAS-FLORES, AKA  D.C. No.

CR-05-01086-ROS

Arturo Morales-Garcia, AKA

OPINION

Bernardo Mancias-Flores, Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Roslyn O. Silver, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 5, 2009 San Francisco, California

Filed December 2, 2009

Before: Pamela Ann Rymer and A. Wallace Tashima, Circuit Judges, and Lynn S. Adelman, * District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Adelman; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Rymer

*The Honorable Lynn S. Adelman, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Daniel Kaplan, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, Arizona, for the defendant-appellant.

Lisa Jennis Settel, Assistant United States Attorney, Phoenix, Arizona, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

ADELMAN, District Judge:

A Phoenix grand jury indicted defendant Bernardo Mancinas-Flores…