UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Enzo Guel ROMEO, Defendant-Appellant

TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the district court denying appellant Romeo’s motion to dismiss the remaining count of a two-count indictment on the ground of collateral estoppel. Because that doctrine implicates the constitutional protection against double jeopardy, we have jurisdiction to review this interlocutory order under Abney v. United States, 431 U.S. 651, 659, 97 S.Ct. 2034, 2040, 52 L.Ed.2d 651 (1977). See United States v. Cejas, 817 F.2d 595, 596 (9th Cir.1987) (extending Abney to collateral estoppel rulings).

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Romeo was charged in a two-count indictment…