United States Ninth Circuit

An employee's conviction for destroying and causing others to destroy documents filed and deposited with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) at a particular California Service Center is affirmed over a claim that there was insufficient evidence proving that he willfully and unlawfully ordered the destruction of the specific documents charged in the indictment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/08/2006
• Decided 07/24/2006
• Published 07/24/2006

Judges

• Before SUSAN P. GRABER, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jonathan D. Libby, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Nguyen-Hong K. Hoang, Assistant United States Attorney, Santa Ana, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.