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U.S. v. ARPAIO

No. 17-10448.

951 F.3d 1001 (2020)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph M. ARPAIO, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 27, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Wilenchik (argued) and Dennis I. Wilenchik , Wilenchik & Bartness P.C., Phoenix, Arizona; Mark Goldman and Jeff S. Surdakowski , Goldman & Zwillinger PLLC, Scottsdale, Arizona; Larry Klayman, Washington, D.C.; for Defendant-Appellant.

James I. Pearce (argued), Appellate Section, Criminal Division; Matthew S. Miner , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; John P. Cronan , Acting Assistant Attorney General; John Dixon Keller , Deputy Chief; Victor R. Salgado and Simon Joseph Cataldo , Trial Attorneys, Public Integrity Section; United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Christopher G. Caldwell (argued), Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Los Angeles, California, Special Prosecutor Plaintiff-Appellee.

Steven A. Hirsch , Ian Bassin , Justin Florence , Aditi Juneja , and Anne Tindall , The Protect Democracy Project Inc., Washington, D.C.; Jean-Jacques Cabou , Shane R. Swindle , and Katherine E. May , Perkins Coie LLP, Phoenix, Arizona; Locke E. Bowman and David M. Shapiro , Roderick and Solange Macarthur Justice Center, Chicago, Illinois; Ronald A. Fein and Shanna M. Cleveland , Free Speech for People, Newton, Massachusetts; Noah Messing , Messing & Spector LLP, New York, New York; Phil Spector , Messing & Spector LLP, Baltimore, Maryland; Dennis Aftergut and Louise H. Renne , Coalition to Preserve, Protect, and Defend, San Francisco, California; for Amici Curiae Laurence H. Tribe; Martin H. Redish; Lawrence Friedman; William D. Rich; Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington; Coalition to Preserve, Protect and Defend; Free Speech for People; MoveOn; The Protect Democracy Project, Inc.; Republicans for the Rule of Law; and The Roderick and Solange Macarthur Justice Center.

Spencer G. Scharff , Scharff PLC, Phoenix, Arizona; R. Bradley Miller , Guttman Bushner and Brooks PLLC, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Certain Members of Congress.

Dennis P. Riordan and Donald M. Horgan , Riordan & Horgan, San Francisco, California; for Amici Curiae Erwin Chemerinsky, Michael E. Tigar, and Jane B. Tigar.

Before: Jay S. Bybee, N. Randy Smith, and Daniel P. Collins, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant Joseph Arpaio, the former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, was found guilty of criminal contempt in a bench trial for willfully violating a preliminary injunction prohibiting him from enforcing federal civil immigration law. After entry of the verdict, but before the court could sentence...

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