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U.S. v. CARPENTER

No. 17-10498, No. 18-10006.

923 F.3d 1172 (2019)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Roxanne Marie CARPENTER, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Fausto Velazquez, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 9, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Jonathan Young (argued), Law Offices of Williamson & Young P.C., Tucson, Arizona, for Defendant-Appellant Roxanne Carpenter.

Joshua F. Hamilton (argued) and Carol L. Lamoureux , Law Offices of Hernandez & Hamilton PC, Tucson, Arizona, for Defendant-Appellant Fausto Velazquez.

Erica Anderson McCallum (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Robert L. Miskell , Appellate Chief; Elizabeth A. Strange , First Assistant United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Tucson, Arizona; for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: MICHAEL D. HAWKINS and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges, and KATHRYN H. VRATIL, District Judge.

OPINION

In March 2017, Roxanne Carpenter, Fausto Velazquez, Phoelix Begay, and Brian Meyers (together, codefendants) kidnapped Angel Gonzalez—who was suspected of stealing marijuana from a Mexican cartel—to turn him over to the cartel in exchange for thirty pounds of marijuana. After a five-day trial...

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