United States of America v. Kathy Stamps

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
KATHY STAMPS,
Defendant - Appellant.
No. 11-50252
D.C. No. 2:08-cr-00566-CAS-1
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Central District of California
Christina A. Snyder, District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted November 6, 2012
Pasadena, California
Before: KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, REINHARDT and THOMAS, Circuit
Judges.
Kathy Stamps argues that we must vacate her conviction for three counts of
mail fraud because the prosecutor failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that
the United States had a property interest in the money she stole. But the prosecutor
wasn’t required to prove ownership of the funds as an element of the offense. See
FILED
NOV 15 2012
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U .S. C OU R T OF APPE ALS

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United States v. Crawford, 239 F.3d 1086, 1092–93 & n.6 (9th Cir. 2001). We
therefore conclude that the government presented sufficient evidence to support the
conviction.
AFFIRMED.

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