United States Ninth Circuit

Appeals from defendants' convictions and sentences for conspiring to possess and distribute cocaine are dismissed in part and otherwise affirmed over challenges regarding: 1) the government's application for the wiretap on which its case was built; 2) prosecutorial misconduct; and 3) the constitutionality of the sentences.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/19/2007
• Decided 12/27/2007
• Published 12/27/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, A. WALLACE TASHIMA and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gretchen Fusilier, Carlsbad, CA, for defendant-appellant Juan Emanuel Lococo., Alissa Sawano Peterson, Irvine, CA, for defendant-appellant John D. Edwards, Jr., Philip Deitch, Van Nuys, CA, for defendant-appellant Charlotte Venia Jackson., Jennifer A. Corbet, Kevin S. Rosenberg and Thomas P. O'Brien, Assistant U.S. Attorneys;  George S. Cardona, Acting U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiff-appellee.