United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of attorney's fees was proper under the Hyde Amendment, 18 U.S.C. section 3006A, where appellant, an attorney indicted for mail fraud, whose indictment was dismissed in accordance with a completed diversion agreement, was not a "prevailing party" under that statute, but was more akin to a convicted defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2002
• Published 06/03/2002

Judges

• Before FERNANDEZ, RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges and EDWARD C. REED, Jr., District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Brian Campbell, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, defendant-appellant in proper person., Mark Aveis, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.