United States Ninth Circuit

A conviction and sentence for being a deported alien found in the U.S. without permission is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) the sufficiency of the evidence; 2) jury instruction; 3) exclusion of testimony of an impeachment witness; 4) introduction of evidence that he twice illegally entered the U.S.; 5) a Batson claim; and 6) an impermissible increase to his sentence above the statutory maximum.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/24/2006
• Decided 02/23/2007
• Published 02/23/2007

Judges

• SILER, Circuit Judge., Before EUGENE E. SILER, JR.,A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Martha M. Hall, San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Carol C. Lam, United States Attorney, Roger W. Haines, Assistant United States Attorney, Mark R. Rehe, Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.