United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's drug distribution conviction and sentence are affirmed where, even if plain error review did not apply, there was no error in the District Court's failure sua sponte to strike a juror for cause based on the murder of the juror's uncle by a drug dealer.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/20/2008
• Decided 06/23/2009
• Published 06/23/2009

Judges

• Before:  J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, SIDNEY R. THOMAS and SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Dennis A. Cameron, Reno, NV, for the defendant-appellant., William R. Reed, Assistant United States Attorney, Reno, NV, for the plaintiff-appellee.