United States Eleventh Circuit

Conviction of two defendants, one a reverend, of over one hundred counts related to bilking hundreds of churches and other non-profit organizations out of millions of dollars, with one defendant sentenced to 38 months, is affirmed over claims of: 1) erroneous admission of, and instruction on, post-indictment flight evidence; 2) erroneous exclusion of deposition testimony of one of the defendant's attorneys from a prior civil proceeding; 3) insufficient evidence of conspiracy to commit money laundering; 4) insufficient evidence to support deliberate ignorance jury charge; 5) erroneous failure to instruct the jury that it had to be unanimous in finding the object of the conspiracy; 6) erroneous denial of motion to sever; and 7) erroneous calculation of 38-month sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/15/2006
• Published 12/15/2006

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES, MARCUS and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Amy Levin Weil, John Russell Phillips, Atlanta, GA, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mildred Geckler Dunn and Stephanie Kearns, Fed. Pub. Defenders, Atlanta, GA, Janice Kristin Jenkins (Court-Appointed), Roswell, GA, for Defendants-Appellants.