United States Ninth Circuit

Order holding defendant in civil contempt for his refusal to answer the questions posed to him by the government before a grand jury is affirmed where defendant has not shown that the government's questions were the "primary product" of unlawful surveillance or were "obtained by the exploitation" of any unlawful surveillance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/09/2005
• Published 12/09/2005

Judges

• Before:  ALFRED T. GOODWIN, WILLIAM A. FLETCHER and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rita Hao, Gonzalez & Leigh, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elise Becker, Office of the United States Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for the appellee.