United States Ninth Circuit

Defendants' convictions for theft of government property are reversed pursuant to their claim that the government did not prove that the property at issue, certain Native American petroglyphs, had a "value" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. section 641.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/20/2005
• Decided 03/21/2006
• Published 03/21/2006

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before STEPHEN REINHARDT, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard F. Cornell and Scott N. Freeman, Reno, NV, for appellant Ligon., Richard F. Cornell and David R. Houstin, Reno, NV, for appellant Mizell.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald C. Rachow and Robert Don Gifford, II, Office of the United States Attorney, Reno, NV, for the appellee.