United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's convictions on charges relating to transportation of stolen property are affirmed in part, where the District Court's failure to instruct the jury regarding materiality on the misbranding of medical devices charge, but reversed in part, where the government introduced prejudicial hearsay accomplice testimony at trial.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/08/2008
• Decided 05/15/2009
• Published 05/15/2009

Judges

• Before:  ROBERT R. BEEZER, RONALD M. GOULD, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sheryl Gordon McCloud, Law Offices of Sheryl Gordon McCloud, Seattle, WA, for appellant Tuyet Thi-Bach Nguyen.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey C. Sullivan and Susan Loitz, U.S. Attorney's Office, Seattle, WA, for appellee United States of America.