NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS NOV 26 2018 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 17-10296 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 2:16-cr-00195-DLR-1 v. JUAN PABLO GARRIDO CHILACA, MEMORANDUM * Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Douglas L. Rayes, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted October 15, 2018 San Francisco, California Before: HAWKINS and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges, and ROSENTHAL,** Chief District Judge. Juan Pablo Garrido Chilaca was convicted of possessing child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B). FBI agents interviewed him after obtaining a search warrant for his home. Before reading the Miranda warning, an * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable Lee H. Rosenthal, Chief United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, sitting by designation. agent asked Chilaca for basic biographical information, including his cellphone number. The number linked Chilaca to a Dropbox account that contained child- pornography images. The agent then read the Miranda warning to Chilaca in Spanish, and added in English: “You can remain silent, but we want to ask you some questions about the search warrant.” Chilaca, who had previously confirmed that he understood English, responded “okay,” signed a Spanish-language Miranda waiver, and the interview continued. Chilaca then gave the agents details about how he obtained, stored, and accessed the images and videos found on a desktop computer and on hard drives in his home, and in the Dropbox account. Before trial, Chilaca moved to suppress his statement. After an evidentiary hearing at which Chilaca and the agent testified, the district court found that the agents properly advised Chilaca of his rights and that Chilaca voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently waived them. The district court, however, suppressed the statement disclosing Chilaca’s cellphone number, which was given in response to a question asked before the Miranda warning was read. Chilaca appeals the district court’s denial of the motion to suppress. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review the adequacy of Miranda warnings de novo, United States v. Loucious, 847 F.3d 1146, 1148–49 (9th Cir. 2017); whether a waiver was voluntary de novo, United States v. Rodriguez-Preciado, 399 F.3d 2 17-10296 1118, 1127 (9th Cir. 2005); and whether a waiver was knowing and intelligent for clear error, United States v. Crews, 502 F.3d 1130, 1135 (9th Cir. 2007). We affirm. The record amply supports the district court’s finding that the agents properly advised Chilaca of his rights. The agent’s added statement, after reading the Miranda warning verbatim, that Chilaca could remain silent but the agents wanted to ask him “some questions,” did not make the previously given warning misleading or confusing. See Duckworth v. Eagan, 492 U.S. 195, 203–04 (1989); Loucious, 847 F.3d at 1149–51. The record also amply supports the district court’s findings that Chilaca’s waiver of his Miranda rights was voluntary, knowing, and intelligent. ...
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