Unpublished Disposition, 936 F.2d 581 (9th Cir. 1990)
Annotate this CaseUNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,v.Dean Roger STAFFORD, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 90-50553.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted June 4, 1991.Decided June 18, 1991.
Before FLETCHER, CANBY and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges.
ORDER
Stafford's conviction is affirmed for all of the reasons stated by the district court in its May 25, 1990 Decision and Order, except the reason as to the outrageous governmental conduct claim.1 Stafford does not have standing to raise the outrageous governmental conduct issue because he has not alleged personal injury. Although the manufacture of methamphetamine has many harmful environmental effects (we note the government was not the volitional actor mixing the toxic chemicals and "cooking" the drug), these generalized harms to society are not sufficient to establish standing to challenge the government's activity. As Stafford claims no direct harm from the alleged outrageous conduct, we need not reach the issue of whether such conduct was indeed outrageous. His conviction is AFFIRMED.
We note that we almost deemed this issue abandoned due to counsel's failure to adequately develop the argument. Factual allegations do not constitute argument
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