United States v. John F. Hayden

980 F.2d 739 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John F. HAYDEN, Defendant-Appellee. No. 91-50682. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Oct. 5, 1992. Decided Dec. 9, 1992. Before FEINBERG, * GOODWIN and SCHROEDER, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 The government appeals the district court's orders striking parts of the indictment and excluding certain evidence. The government also asks this court to order the case reassigned to another judge. The case is here for the third time. 3 Hayden was indicted in 1986 on thirty-two counts of wire fraud and two counts of interstate transportation of stolen property arising out of an insurance and bonding scheme that the government alleged to be fraudulent. The scheme led lenders on real estate collateral to suffer substantial losses when the market for certain types of speculative real estate development went sour in the early 1980s. After…