Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Travis Edward FISCHER, AKA Edward Travis Fischer, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-10-24
Citations: 699 F. App'x 691
Docket Number: No. 16-30153
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Travis Edward FISCHER, AKA Edward Travis Fischer, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before: WARDLAW, CLIFTON, and OWENS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 699
Pages: 691–692

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Travis Edward FISCHER, AKA Edward Travis Fischer, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 16-30153
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted October 6, 2017 Seattle, Washington
Filed October 24, 2017
Helen J. Brunner, Esquire, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Benjamin Diggs, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Michael William Dion, Assistant U.S. Attorney, DOJ-Office of the U.S. Attorney, Seattle, WA, for Plaintiff-Appellee
Dennis Carroll, Esquire, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Corey Endo, Attorney, FPDWA—Federal Public Defender’s Office, Western District of Washington, Seattle, WA, Andrew David Kennedy, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Western District of Washington, Seattle, WA, for Defendant-Appellant
Before: WARDLAW, CLIFTON, and OWENS, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Travis Edward Fischer appeals from his convictions on three counts of theft of public funds under 18 U.S.C. § 641 on the ground that the district court improperly commented on the evidence. As the parties are familiar with the facts, we do not recount them here. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
To the extent the district court erred by including the chart in Instruction 20, such error is harmless because there is "no reasonable possibility that the error materially affected the verdict." United States v. Rubio-Villareal, 967 F.2d 294, 296 n.3 (9th Cir. 1992) (en banc). As to Counts 9 and 10, both Cabrini Morris and Annaliza Torres testified that Defendant's Queen Anne apartment was subsidized by HUD. As to Count 14, Renee Pelletier and Linda Peterson testified that the food stamps were funded by the federal government. Fischer presented no evidence contesting that testimony. In light of this evidence, there is no reasonable possibility that the exclusion of the chart would have altered the jury's verdict.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.