United States Ninth Circuit

Conviction for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine is reversed in part where the district court applied an improper standard by requiring defendant to demonstrate a pattern of strikes against a cognizable racial group before requiring the government to state a reason for a peremptory strike, but affirmed in part over defendant's challenges to the suppression of an audiotape recording of a government informant and the court's refusal to require the government to accept a subpoena for a confidential informant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/06/2008
• Decided 01/07/2009
• Published 01/07/2009

Judges

• Before:  JOHN R. GIBSON,DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, and SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Karen L. Landau, Oakland, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Patrick R. Fitzgerald, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Criminal Division, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.