United States v. Armando Orozco-Barron

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 21-50298

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 3:20-cr-02277- v. LAB-1

ARMANDO OROZCO-BARRON,

AKA Armando Orozco-Baron, OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Larry A. Burns, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 8, 2022 Pasadena, California

Filed May 22, 2023

Before: Carlos T. Bea, Sandra S. Ikuta, and Morgan Christen, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Ikuta; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Christen 2 UNITED STATES V. OROZCO-BARRON

SUMMARY *

Criminal Law

Affirming Armando Orozco-Barron’s conviction for attempted illegal reentry after deportation, the panel held that the district court, in denying Orozco-Barron’s motion to dismiss his information for violations of the Speedy Trial Act, did not clearly err in excluding periods of delay resulting from ends of justice continuances granted due to events caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The focus of the parties’ dispute…