United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for knowingly procuring naturalization contrary to law is reversed where a submission of incomplete jury instructions was plain error, and defendant's attorney provided constitutionally deficient assistance when he declined a judge's offer to instruct the jury on the element of materiality in the charged crime.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/11/2006
• Published 01/11/2006

Judges

• BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before: B. FLETCHER, GIBSON, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lee Tucker, Tucson, AZ, for the defendant-appellant., Christina M. Cabanillas, Assistant United States Attorney, Tucson, AZ, for the plaintiff-appellee.