United States v. Ambros Mekoll

15 F.3d 1093 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel.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-Appellee, v. Ambros MEKOLL, Defendant-Appellant. No. 93-10101. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted July 14, 1993. Decided Dec. 20, 1993. 1 Before: HUG and LEAVY, Circuit Judges, and REAL, * Chief District Judge. 2 MEMORANDUM ** 3 Ambros Mekoll (MEKOLL) claims that the prosecutor's argument at his trial was prejudicial when reviewing the evidence, the prosecutor developed what she referred to as a profile of the person likely to commit the crime. In that argument the prosecutor argued that the airplane where MEKOLL fished the marihuana out of the plane's toilet was arriving in Guam from Palau. Defendant was Palauan, a fact elicited at the trial by his counsel. 4 MEKOLL cites particularly two parts of the prosecutor's argument: 1. "(T)hat the person coming to get it (the marihuana) is going to be Palauan. Plane comes from Palau, marihuana is coming…