United States Tenth Circuit

A conviction for obstructing an official proceeding, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and providing unlawful notice of a search or seizure warrant is reversed and the case remanded where: 1) the district court did not err in concluding the government made a prima facie showing that its minimization efforts were reasonable; 2) there was no error in refusing to instruct the jury on entrapment since there was no evidence of wrongful inducement; 3) the court abused its discretion in excluding defendant's character evidence; and 4) defendant was entitled to a new trial since such exclusion deprived him of important evidence relevant to a controverted question at the center of his defense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2008
• Published 06/03/2008

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, MURPHY, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert R. Nigh, Jr. (Clark O. Brewster with him on the briefs), Brewster & DeAngelis, Tulsa, OK, for Defendant-Appellant., Robert T. Raley, Assistant United States Attorney (David E. O'Meilia, United States Attorney, and Kevin Danielson, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), Northern District of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellee.