Legal Opinion
United States v. Corbert Goldtooth
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 12, 2014No. 12-10570, 12-10571PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NOONAN, Circuit Judge:
Corbert Goldtooth and Myron Tsosie (together, “Appellants”) appeal their convictions on two counts of aiding and abetting robbery on the Navajo Nation. Because no rational juror could have convicted either man of either count, we reverse.
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The facts are not in dispute. In the early morning hours of July 31, 2011, Fallen Crawford and Sheldon Davis, both in their late teens, were rolling tobacco and smoking cigarettes outside a gas station in Fort Defiance, Arizona, a small community within the Navajo Nation. At approximately two a.m., a four-door sedan driven by a…
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