U.S. v. SOLANO

No. 92-10648.

10 F.3d 682 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William SOLANO, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 1, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis P. Riordan, Riordan & Rosenthal, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellant.

Kent Walker, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: ALARCÓN, LEAVY and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.


KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

We are compelled to reverse because of an error in the duress instruction.

I. Facts

Solano rented a storage locker for a methamphetamine laboratory. His defense was duress, that a man whom he reasonably feared would otherwise kill him forced him to rent the locker. The jury acquitted him of two counts of manufacturing, but convicted him of six counts of attempting to manufacture and possession with knowledge or intent to...

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