United States Ninth Circuit

Fernandez-Ruiz v. Gonzales, 466 F.3d 1121 (9th Cir. 2006), abrogates previous applicable precedent such that California Penal Code section 246, which involves the malicious and willful discharge of a firearm at designated inhabited, or occupied, structures or vehicles, is no longer a categorical crime of violence under U.S.S.G. section 2L1.2.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/08/2006
• Decided 06/06/2007
• Published 06/06/2007

Judges

• BEEZER, Circuit Judge., Before:  ROBERT R. BEEZER, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James Fife, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Roger W. Haines, Jr., and Michael J. Crowley, Assistant United States Attorneys, for the plaintiff-appellee.