United States Ninth Circuit

A conviction for perjury committed in connection with an illegal reentry trial is reversed where the Double Jeopardy Clause barred the government from trying a second time to attempt to show that defendant was afforded a deportation hearing at issue, and that his testimony to the contrary was untruthful.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/09/2006
• Decided 02/26/2007
• Published 02/26/2007

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before: REINHARDT, TROTT, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Edmund Burke, San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Valerie H. Chu, Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.