Berry

United States v. Berry

Good Law
318 F. App'x 569
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitMarch 11, 2009No. 08-50259California330 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM *

James Berry’appeals his conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 472 for possession of counterfeit U.S. currency, and the terms of his supervised release. We affirm the conviction and remand the sentence for the limited purpose of conforming certain conditions of supervised release to the court’s oral pronouncement of sentence.

Although Berry may well have been uncomfortable in the patrol car, his will was not overborne. He was Mirandized before both interviews, which lasted about ten minutes each, and he spoke freely and voluntarily on each occasion. See Blackburn v. Alabama, 361 U.S. 199, 206 , 80 S.Ct. 274 , 4 L.Ed.2d 242 (1960); Clark v. Murphy, 331 F.3d 1062, 1072 (9th Cir.2003). Agent Warren’s statement that he planned to take Berry’s computers was not a threat, as Berry contends, but a statement about standard procedure in the circumstances. Finally, questioning immediately stopped once Berry asked for a lawyer during the Warren interview. It is clear from the district court’s decision that it necessarily found that Berry made no earlier request for counsel.

The district court did not abuse its discretion in treating the testimony of Agent Beamer as akin to a fact…

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