Legal Opinion
United States v. Chet Govan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 3, 1998No. 97-10275PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide various issues arising from convictions and sentence for federal crimes arising out of a failed robbery at a Las Vegas casino.
I
Sometime in February 1994, Chet Govan approached fellow members of the “118th Street East Coast Crips” (“Crips”), a violent Los Angeles street gang, with a proposition to participate along with him. and Melvin Foster in the robbery of a Las Vegas hotel and casino. Govan told the Crips, who included Joseph Wright, Dontel Carter, Damian Littlejohn, Jamal Brown, and John Doe, a juvenile, that he and Foster, a member of the rival…
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