United States Ninth Circuit

A conviction for possessing pseudoephedrine knowing, or with reasonable cause to believe, that it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine is affirmed over defendant's claims that: 1) a supplemental jury instruction improperly relieved the government of having to prove that he knew pills were pseudoephedrine; 2) there was insufficient evidence to prove he knew the pills were pseudoephedrine; 3) the loss of a truck's evidentiary value violated his due process rights; and 4) the district court erred in admitting certain fingerprint evidence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/03/2006
• Decided 07/17/2006
• Published 07/17/2006

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.