United States Ninth Circuit

A conviction and sentence for being a deported alien found in the United States is affirmed where any error in the government's impermissible references to defendant's post-Miranda silence was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, and none of his other assertions of error were meritorious.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/08/2006
• Decided 11/30/2006
• Published 11/30/2006

Judges

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

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Chase Scolnick, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Timothy F. Salel, Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.