Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard Douglas LATKA, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-08-18
Citations: 696 F. App'x 287
Docket Number: No. 16-50044
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard Douglas LATKA, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before: REINHARDT, KOZINSKI and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 696
Pages: 287–288

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard Douglas LATKA, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 16-50044
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted August 7, 2017 Pasadena, California
Filed August 18, 2017
L. Ashley Aull, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Christopher Copeland Kendall, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Cassie D. Palmer, Assistant U.S. Attorney, DOJ—Office of the U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee
Benjamin Lee Coleman, Coleman & Bal-ogh LLP, San Diego, CA, for Defendant-Appellant
Before: REINHARDT, KOZINSKI and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
1.Latka's indictment was sufficient because "it contained] the elements of the charged crime in adequate detail to inform [him] of the charge, and . enablefd] him to plead double jeopardy." See United States v. Morlan, 756 F.2d 1442, 1444 (9th Cir. 1985) (citation omitted).
Further, the indictment wasn't "constructively amended, which] occurs when the defendant is charged with one crime but, in effect, is tried for another crime." United States v. Mancuso, 718 F.3d 780, 792 (9th Cir. 2013) (citations omitted); see also Stirone v. United States, 361 U.S. 212, 214-15, 80 S.Ct. 270, 4 L.Ed.2d 252 (1960) (holding that an indictment for moving sand was impermissibly amended when the conviction was for moving steel); United States v. Choy, 309 F.3d 602, 607-08 (9th Cir. 2002) (holding that an indictment for bribing a public official was impermissibly amended when the conviction was for giving money to a private individual).
"The continuous nature of [Latka's offense] prevents the indictment from being duplicitous." Mancuso, 718 F.3d at 792 (citation omitted). The trial court's unanimity instruction also remedied any possible duplicity. See United States v. Ramirez-Martinez, 273 F.3d 903, 915 (9th Cir. 2001), overruled on other grounds by United States v. Lopez, 484 F.3d 1186 (9th Cir. 2007).
2. The district court didn't violate Lat-ka's right to confront Ellsworth because the excluded evidence wasn't relevant and the jury had "sufficient information to assess [Ellsworth's] . credibility[.]" United States v. Cazares, 788 F.3d 956, 983-84 (9th Cir. 2015).
3. A district court may, for good cause, remove "any jurors who are unable to perform or who are disqualified from performing their duties." Fed. R. Crim. P. 24(c)(1); see Williams v. Cavazos, 646 F.3d 626, 652 (9th Cir. 2011), rev'd on other grounds sub nom. Johnson v. Williams, 568 U.S. 289, 133 S.Ct. 1088, 185 L.Ed.2d 105 (2013). The district court didn't abuse its discretion because it had good cause to remove Juror 9.
4. There being no individual errors, Lat-ka's cumulative error claim fails.
AFFIRMED
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.