United States Ninth Circuit

In the context of criminal sentencing, a minute order is "not a judicial record that can be relied upon" to establish the nature of a prior conviction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/25/2008
• Decided 04/03/2007
• Published 04/03/2007

Judges

• Before:  ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, STEPHEN REINHARDT, PAMELA ANN RYMER, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, HAWKINS, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, SUSAN P. GRABER, W. FLETCHER, RONALD M. GOULD, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven F. Hubachek, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, CA, for the amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gail Ivens, Deputy Public Defender, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Anne C. Gannon, Assistant United States Attorney, Santa Ana, CA, and Michael J. Raphael, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.