United States Ninth Circuit

In convictions for wire fraud and money laundering, court's erroneous evidentiary rulings violated defendant's constitutional confrontation rights by restricting cross-examination of a key government witness on credibility issues; jury instruction on wire fraud amounted to impermissible broadening of the scope of the indictment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/15/2002
• Decided 05/23/2002
• Published 05/23/2002

Judges

• Before GOODWIN and TROTT, Circuit Judges, EZRA, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Marcus S. Topel,Daniel F. Cook, Joseph D. Elford, Topel & Goodman, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Thomas E. Flynn, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Sacramento, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.