United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's conviction on a drug conspiracy charge is vacated and remanded, where: 1) charges in a superseding indictment not required to be joined with the original charges come with a new seventy-day clock under the Speedy Trial Act; 2) the conspiracy count introduced in the superseding indictment in this case was not required to be joined with the count in the original indictment charging possession with intent to distribute marijuana; but 3) the trial court's denial of defendant's suppression motion must be reversed because the government's failure to turn over a full complement of dog-history discovery was error, and that error was not harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2013
• Published 08/08/2013

Judges

• O’SCANNLAIN

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel