Case ID: f-appx_268/html/0688-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff — Appellee, v. Rachel Lee MEYER, a/k/a Juliet Frances Jones, Defendant— Appellant.
    No. 05-50847.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted March 3, 2008 .
    Filed March 7, 2008.
    April Anita Christine, Esq., Becky S. Walker, Esq., USLA — Office of The U.S. Attorney Criminal Division, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Kyle Gee, Esq., Henrikson & Gee, Karyn H. Bucur, Esq., Oakland, CA, Karyn H. Bucur Attorney at Law, Laguna Hills, CA Rachel Lee Meyer FCIP — Federal Correctional Institution, (Phoenix) Female Unit, Phoenix, AZ, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before: GOODWIN, SCHROEDER, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Meyer was jointly tried with Joseph Fabricant and they separately appealed. We reversed Fabricant’s convictions due to a Confrontation Clause violation. See United States v. Fabricant, 240 Fed.Appx. 244 (9th Cir.2007). Meyer raises the same issue on appeal. Under the law of the case doctrine, we are bound by our previous ruling. See United States v. Schaff, 948 F.2d 501, 506 (9th Cir.1991) (“We have previously found the law of the case doctrine to be applicable when the appeal of one co-defendant is decided prior to the appeal of the other co-defendant, if both were convicted at the same trial.”) (citing United States v. Tierney, 448 F.2d 37, 39 (9th Cir.1971)).

Accordingly, we REVERSE Meyer’s convictions and VACATE her sentence.

TALLMAN, Circuit Judge,

concurring in the judgment:

For the reasons expressed in my dissent to the decision in United States v. Fabri- cant, 240 Fed.Appx. 244 (9th Cir.2007), I would affirm. However, I am bound by the law of the case and I join in the judgment as to co-defendant Rachel Lee Meyer. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.