United States Ninth Circuit

A petition for a writ a mandamus to require a district court to permit certain crime victims to observe in its entirety a murder trial in which they will testify, pursuant to the Crime Victims' Rights Act, is granted in part and remanded where the district court excluded the victim-witnesses without determining whether their testimony would be "materially altered" were they allowed to witness the entire trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/07/2006
• Published 07/10/2006

Judges

• Before MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, and BARRY G. SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrea L. Russi, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for petitioner United States., Dale Michael Rubin, San Marino, CA, and Richard M. Callahan, Jr., Pasadena, CA, for real party in interest Iouri Mikhel., Richard P. Lasting, Santa Monica, CA, and Sonia E. Chahin, La Canada, CA, for real party in interest Jurlius Kadamovas., George W. Buehler, Los Angeles, CA, and David R. Evans, Pasadena, CA, for real party in interest Petro Krylov., Terry J. Amdur, Pasadena, CA, and Michael M. Crain, Santa Monica, CA, for real party in interest Natalya Solovyevae.