United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of a petition for habeas relief from a conviction for drawing and passing checks with insufficient funds on deposit is reversed where defendant couldn't have written bad checks since her bank was obligated to cover her checks pursuant to a check guarantee card.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/21/2005
• Decided 02/01/2006
• Published 02/01/2006

Judges

• KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge., Before BEEZER and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges, and CARNEY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Franny A. Forsman, Federal Public Defender, and Paul G. Turner, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Las Vegas, NV, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brian Sandoval, Attorney General;  Rene L. Hulse, Senior Deputy Attorney General;  and Victor Hugo Schulze II, Deputy Attorney General, Las Vegas, NV, for the respondent-appellee.