United States Ninth Circuit

U.S. petition for writ of mandamus to require the district court to hold a jury trial in a case involving interstate travel and the abuse of young children is granted where the district court, as a matter of law, was clearly erroneous in ordering a non-jury trial without the consent of the prosecution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/26/2006
• Decided 10/03/2006
• Published 10/03/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before: SILVERMAN, RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and BERTELSMAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• McGregor Scott, U.S. Attorney, Thomas Flynn (argued), Laurel D. White and Ellen V. Endrizzi (briefed), Office of the United States Attorney, Sacramento, California, for petitioner United States.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce Locke, Moss & Locke, Sacramento, California, for defendant-real party in interest Allen Harrod., Daniel Broderick, Acting Federal Defender (argued), Caro Marks (briefed), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Sacramento, California, for defendant-real party in interest Michael Labrecque., Jan Daniel Karowsky, Sacramento, California, for defendant-real party in interest Juliette Labrecque.