United States v. Dennis Chan Lai, United States of America v. Silas Brandon

934 F.2d 1414 UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis Chan LAI, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Silas BRANDON, Defendant-Appellant. Nos. 88-1279, 88-1334. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted May 16, 1990. Decided May 22, 1991. As Amended on Denial of Rehearing Aug. 13, 1991. Andrew French Loomis, Oakland, Cal., for Dennis Chan Lai, defendant-appellant. J. Frank McCabe, Goorjian & McCabe, San Francisco, Cal., for Silas Brandon, defendant-appellant. Michael J. Yamaguchi, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before CHOY and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and FITZGERALD, District Judge. * CHOY, Circuit Judge: 1 Appellants Dennis Lai and Silas Brandon appeal from their convictions on numerous drug charges. We find most of their claims meritless. However, we remand to the district court for it to conduct an evidentiary hearing on whether certain alleged drug records were admissible into evidence. If after the hearing Lai's conviction and sentence for the crime of directing a continuing…