United States Ninth Circuit

Conviction for possession of pseudoephedrine knowing, or with reasonable cause to believe, that it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine is affirmed where: 1) a supplemental jury instruction properly stated the mens rea requirement for the offense; 2) defendant did not prove that destruction of evidence constituted a due process violation; and 3) fingerprint evidence was properly admitted.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/03/2006
• Decided 07/14/2006
• Published 07/14/2006

Judges

• SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge:, Before: NOONAN, Senior Circuit Judge, BYBEE, Circuit Judge, and SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Tim A. Pori, Law Offices of Tim A. Pori, Vallejo, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Carolyn K. Delaney, Assistant United States Attorney and McGregor W. Scott, United States Attorney, Sacramento, CA, for the appellee.