United States Ninth Circuit

Prior statements by defendants that they intended to try to extort victim before killing him is sufficient to support conviction of conspiracy to extort the victim even if the defendants killed the victim before attempting to threaten him.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/11/2000
• Decided 02/28/2001
• Published 02/28/2001

Judges

• Before:  DAVID R. THOMPSON, O'SCANNLAIN, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David Z. Chesnoff,Goodman, Chesnoff & Keach, Las Vegas, Nevada;  John Fadgen, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the defendants-appellants., Eric Johnson and Cynthia Shepherd, Asst. U.S. Attorneys, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the plaintiff-appellee.