United States Fourth Circuit

The Court affirmed that the district court did not abuse its discretion by allowing charts for summarization of voluminous documents; however, it reversed the district court's ruling that the government is limited during its case-in-chief to acts in furtherance of a conpiracy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/09/2004
• Published 07/09/2004

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, MICHAEL, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Steve Alan Linick, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant.   Eric Lloyd Yaffe, Schmeltzer, Aptaker & Shepard, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney, Thomas H. McQuillan, Assistant United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant.  Martin J. Gaynes, Roland B. Ninomiya, Schmeltzer, Aptaker & Shepard, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Appellee Abdorasool Janati;  David Schertler, Barry Coburn, Coburn & Schertler, Washington, D.C., for Appellee Forouzandeh Janati.