United States Ninth Circuit

8 USC 1325-1324, alien smuggling applies to a defendant even if the defendant and the aliens he attempted to smuggle were under continuous observation from entry until arrest.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/09/2001
• Decided 12/11/2001
• Published 12/11/2001

Judges

• Before RYMER and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and POGUE, Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Benjamin L. Coleman, Federal Defenders of San Diego, San Diego, CA, and Shaun Khojayan, San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Patrick K. O'Toole, United States Attorney (at time of argument), Carol C. Lam, United States Attorney (when opinion was filed), Roger W. Haines, Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.