United States of America v. David Arnold

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
DAVID ARNOLD,
Defendant-Appellant.
No. 15-17235
D.C. No.3:15-cv-00109-MMD
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the District of Nevada
Miranda M. Du, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted January 18, 2017**
Before: TROTT, TASHIMA, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
David Arnold appeals from the district court’s order affirming the judgment
of conviction entered by a magistrate judge following his nolo contendere plea to
four misdemeanor petty offenses for camping on public land in California. We
have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
FILED
JAN 25 2017
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

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Arnold’s nolo contendere plea waived all nonjurisdictional defects that
preceded his plea, although he can challenge the voluntary and intelligent nature of
the plea. See Tollett v. Henderson, 411 U.S. 258, 267 (1973); Ortberg v. Moody,
961 F.2d 135, 137-38 (9th Cir. 1992). Arnold maintains that his plea was coerced
because his counsel told him he would go to jail if he did not enter a plea and he
feared losing his mobile home and medical care. The record shows, however, that
Arnold understood the charges, the rights he was waiving, and the penalties he
faced, and that he pleaded nolo contendere voluntarily and intelligently in order to
resolve the citations immediately. Moreover, although the district court erred in
failing to state the minimum and maximum penalties, Arnold has not shown that,
but for this omission, he would not have pleaded nolo contendere. See United
States v. Dominguez Benitez, 542 U.S. 74, 83 (2004). Even if Arnold’s remaining
claims are not waived, they fail for lack of support in the record.1
AFFIRMED.
1 We deny Arnold’s request to take judicial notice of the facts he cites in support of
his claim that the magistrate judge plainly erred in accepting a plea to a citation
that was outside of the issuing Bureau of Land Management ranger’s jurisdiction.
The exact location where the ranger issued the citation- a fact presented for the
first time on appeal- is subject to reasonable dispute, and therefore is not judicially
noticeable. See Fed. R. Evid. 201(b); Reina-Rodriguez v. United States, 655 F.3d
1182, 1193 (9th Cir. 2011).

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