United States Ninth Circuit

A conviction for illegal re-entry following deportation is affirmed where a memorandum of oral decision issued by an immigration judge was nontestimonial, and therefore its admission into evidence did not violate the Confrontation Clause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/06/2006
• Decided 07/19/2006
• Published 07/19/2006

Judges

• GOULD, Circuit Judge., Before SIDNEY R. THOMAS and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAM W SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jodi D. Thorp and Steven F. Hubachek, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Valerie H. Chu, Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.