United States Ninth Circuit

An appeal from a conviction pursuant to a guilty plea for being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm is dismissed where defendant's entry of an unconditional guilty plea deprived the appeals court of jurisdiction to consider his pre-plea constitutional claims, and that jurisdictional defect is not waivable by the government.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/21/2007
• Decided 09/22/2006
• Published 09/22/2006

Judges

• Before:  MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Circuit Judge, HARRY PREGERSON, STEPHEN REINHARDT, PAMELA ANN RYMER, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, SUSAN P. GRABER, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, RAYMOND C. FISHER, RONALD M. GOULD, RICHARD A. PAEZ, MARSHA S. BERZON, JAY S. BYBEE, CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David M. Porter, Federal Public Defenders, Sacramento, CA, Dawn M. Reynolds, Law Offices of Dawn M. Reynolds, Dallas, OR, for the defendant-appellant., Jill Bolton, Office of the United States Attorney, Spokane, WA, for the plaintiff-appellee.