United States v. Ramon Palacios

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JUL 10 2024

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 22-50263

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 3:20-cr-01434-LAB-1 v.

RAMON HUMBERTO PALACIOS, MEMORANDUM*

Defendant-Appellant.

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

Argued and Submitted May 10, 2024 Pasadena, California

Before: WARDLAW, CHRISTEN, and BENNETT, Circuit Judges.

Ramon Palacios appeals his convictions for importing THC, conspiracy to

import THC, and smuggling goods into the United States. Because the parties are

familiar with the facts, we do not recount them here. We have jurisdiction

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

We review Palacios’s Confrontation Clause challenge for plain error because

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. he did not object to the challenged testimony on Confrontation Clause…