U.S. v. HINKSON

No. 05-30303.

526 F.3d 1262 (2008)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David Roland HINKSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 30, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis P. Riordan, Riordan & Riordan, San Francisco, CA, Curtis R. Smith, Idaho Falls, Idaho, for the appellant.

Michael D. Taxay, Counter-Terrorism Section, Alan Hechtkopf, and Elissa Hart, Tax Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the appellee.

Before: PROCTER HUG, JR., M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.


Opinion by Judge WILLIAM A. FLETCHER; Dissent by Judge McKEOWN.

WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Following a two-week trial in federal district court in Boise, Idaho, a jury convicted David Roland Hinkson of soliciting the murder of three federal officials. The government's star witness supporting the conviction was Elven Joe Swisher. Wearing a Purple Heart lapel pin on the witness stand, Swisher testified that...

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