United States Ninth Circuit

By withdrawing a citizenship application in which he may have sworn allegiance to the U.S., an illegal reentry defendant had effectively disavowed the entire application, thus the district court committed clear error in committing to the jury the decision of his nationality.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/04/2002
• Decided 01/21/2003
• Published 01/21/2003

Judges

• Before NOONAN, BERZON, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Raphael, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• James Locklin, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California, for the respondent and real party in interest.