United States Ninth Circuit

In a criminal case involving charges of conspiracy to steal valuable items, and theft of valuable items, found in U.S. mail bound for military personnel stationed in Japan, defendant's sentence is affirmed where the district court did not violate his right of allocution when it denied a motion to close the courtroom for sentencing.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/18/2007
• Decided 12/17/2007
• Published 12/17/2007

Judges

• Before:  DAVID R. THOMPSON, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Claire M. Leary, San Francisco, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey R. Finigan, Assistant United States Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for the appellee.