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418 F.3d 1004

Docket No. 01-35141.

Alford v. Haner

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Aug. 9, 2005.

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 2005-08-09

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2006

4 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Relies on Devenpeck v. Alford · Alford v. Haner · United States v. Lopez-Zamora

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Decided 2005-08-09

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¶1Randy W. Loun, Esq., Loun & Tyner, Bremerton, WA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

¶2*1005Michael Patrick Lynch, Esq., Eric A. Mentzer, Office of the Washington Attorney General, Olympia, WA, for Defendants-Appellees.

¶3Before BROWNING, B. FLETCHER, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

¶4ORDER

¶5This case has returned to us on remand from the Supreme Court. See Devenpeck v. Alford, — U.S. -, 125 S.Ct. 588, 160 L.Ed.2d 537 (2004), reversing Alford v. Haner, 333 F.3d 972 (9th Cir.2003). In turn, we now remand the case to the district court.

¶6As the Supreme Court has pointed out, we did not, in our original disposition, decide whether the police had probable cause to arrest Alford for obstructing a law enforcement officer or for impersonating a law enforcement officer. See 125 S.Ct. at 595. Our review of the record below reveals that the jury did not have occasion to pass on this question either. In fact, the jury received no instruction on the elements of any offense for which Alford might have been arrested other than a violation of Washington’s Privacy Act.

¶7We therefore REMAND the case to the district court for retrial on the alternate theories indicated by the Supreme Court.

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