U.S. v. YANG

No. 18-10341.

958 F.3d 851 (2020)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jay YANG, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 4, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cristen C. Thayer (argued), Assistant Federal Public Defender; Rene L. Valladares , Federal Public Defender; Office of the Federal Public Defender, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Defendant-Appellant.

Nancy M. Olson (argued) and Phillip N. Smith Jr. , Assistant United States Attorneys; Elizabeth O. White , Appellate Chief; Nicholas A. Trutanich , United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Jennifer Lynch and Andrew Crocker , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California; Nathan Freed Wessler and Brett Max Kaufman , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York; Jennifer S. Granick , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, San Francisco, California; Amy M. Rose , American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Amici Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union, and American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada.

Opinion by Judge Piersol; Concurrence by Judge Bea.


OPINION

In April 2016, Defendant Jay Yang was observed on surveillance cameras driving a rented GMC Yukon and stealing mail out of collection boxes at the Summerlin Post Office in Las Vegas, Nevada. When U.S. Postal Inspector Justin Steele spoke with representatives of Prestige Motors, from which Yang rented the...

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