United States v. Taloa Latu

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS AUG 31 2022

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-10069

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 1:17-cr-00364-JMS-1 v.

TALOA LATU, MEMORANDUM*

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii J. Michael Seabright, Chief District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted July 7, 2022 Honolulu, Hawaii

Before: WARDLAW, NGUYEN, and OWENS, Circuit Judges.

Taloa Latu appeals his conviction and sentence for assault resulting in

serious bodily injury under 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(6). Latu attacked another inmate,

Joseph Yamaguchi, while incarcerated at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. on September 11, 2016. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and

U.S.C. § 3742(a), and we affirm.

1. The district court did not plainly err in instructing the jury that…