United States Ninth Circuit

Convictions for document fraud related to defendant's personal asylum application and conspiracy to commit marriage fraud to avoid immigration laws are affirmed where although the counts were misjoined, the error did not warrant reversal in this case. Further, there was no reversible error as to claims regarding denial of motions to suppress physical evidence and to conduct a pre-trial hearing addressing the reliability of expert testimony, or various evidentiary rulings.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/01/2006
• Decided 09/15/2006
• Published 09/15/2006

Judges

• Before STEPHEN REINHARDT, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ralph Hurvitz, Seattle, WA, for the defendant-appellant., Michael J. Lang, Assistant United States Attorney, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellee.