United States v. Dumaka Hammond

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: October 23, 2018
• Docket: 17-10340
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS OCT 23 2018 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 17-10340

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 4:16-cr-00102-JD-1

v. MEMORANDUM* DUMAKA HAMMOND,

Defendant-Appellant.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 17-10403

Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 4:16-cr-00102-JD-1

v.

DUMAKA HAMMOND,

Defendant-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California James Donato, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 14, 2018 San Francisco, California

Before: O'SCANNLAIN and BEA, Circuit Judges, and STEARNS,** District

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. Judge.

Dumaka Hammond appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to

suppress evidence obtained pursuant to a warrant issued by a magistrate judge in

the Eastern District of Virginia authorizing use of a Network Investigative

Technique (NIT) during the investigation of a child pornography website and its

users. The government cross-appeals the district court’s imposition of a 108-

month sentence that fell below the federal mandatory minimum. Because the facts

are known to the parties, we repeat them only as necessary to explain our decision.

I

The district court did not err in denying Hammond’s motion to suppress

evidence. Although the warrant violated Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure

41(b), suppression is not required because the good faith exception to the

exclusionary rule applies. See United States v. Henderson, No. 17-10230, – F.3d –

(9th Cir. 2018).

II

The district court did not err in declining to apply the federal ten-year

mandatory minimum. Hammond pled guilty to one count of possession of child

pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B). The government argues

** The Honorable Richard G. Stearns, United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, sitting by designation.

2 that the district court should have applied the mandatory minimum because

Hammond was previously convicted for possession of child pornography under

state law, California Penal Code § 311.11(a). The usual, elements-based

categorical approach applies to determine whether prior convictions under state

law “relate to” child pornography such that the federal mandatory minimum, 18

U.S.C. § 2252(b)(2), applies. See United States v. Reinhart, 893 F.3d 606, 610

(9th Cir. 2018). The California statute for possession of child pornography, section

311.11(a), is not a categorical match for the federal child pornography provision.

See Chavez-Solis v. Lynch, 803 F.3d 1004, 1008 (9th Cir. 2015).

AFFIRMED.