United States Ninth Circuit

A conviction, sentence, and restitution order for mail and wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit those offenses are affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) whether defendant involuntarily waived his right to counsel and received ineffective assistance of counsel; 2) failure to grant an adequate continuance; 3) prosecutorial misconduct; 4) sufficiency of the evidence; 5) whether the sentence was unreasonable; and 6) whether imposition of restitution of over $36 million was error due to the lower court's failure to comply with the time frame outlined in section 3664(d)(5) of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2007
• Decided 12/12/2007
• Published 12/12/2007

Judges

• HUG, Circuit Judge:, Before:  PROCTER HUG, JR., M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and WILLIAM FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jordan Gross, Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo PLLC, Seattle, WA, for defendant-appellant., Andrew C. Friedman, Assistant United States Attorney, Seattle, WA, for plaintiff-appellee.