United States Eighth Circuit

A conviction for illegal reentry after deportation is affirmed over claims of erroneous admission of evidence and denial of a mistrial motion where: 1) a Certificate of Nonexistence of Record (CNR) from a defendant's "alien-file" constitutes nontestimonial evidence; and 2) the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion for mistrial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/22/2006
• Published 11/22/2006

Judges

• BEAM, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, BEAM, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David R. Stickman, argued, Omaha, NE (Jessica L. Milburn, on the brief), for appellant., Peter Charles Urqhart Rochester, MN, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Douglas Richard Semisch, argued, Asst. U.S. Atty., Omaha, NE, for appellee.