United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's child pornography conviction is vacated, where after Defendant's trial the Supreme Court decided Indiana v. Edwards, 128 S. Ct. 2379 (2008), which prescribed a different standard for evaluating a defendant's mental competency than the one used by the District Court.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/20/2008
• Decided 03/27/2009
• Published 03/27/2009

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SUSAN P. GRABER and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and DAVID G. TRAGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gary P. Burcham, Burcham & Zugman, A.P.C., San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Rupa S. Goswami, Assistant United States Attorney, Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.