United States v. Eduardo Navarro

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

OCT 4 2021

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 20-10032

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 4:18-cr-02106-JAS-EJM-1 v.

EDUARDO SOLOMAN NAVARRO, MEMORANDUM*

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona James Alan Soto, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted September 13, 2021 San Francisco, California

Before: WALLACE, SCHROEDER, and FORREST, Circuit Judges.

Eduardo Navarro appeals from his jury conviction and sentence for

transportation of illegal aliens and conspiracy to transport illegal aliens.

The district court properly allowed the videotaped depositions of

undocumented immigrants. The government sustained its burden to show that it

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. made good faith efforts to procure the witnesses, and they were nevertheless

unavailable because they would not return to the United States. See…