United States Eleventh Circuit

Conviction and sentence for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and security fraud, and for conspiracy to engage in money laundering are affirmed over claims that: 1) the prosecutor elicited and exploited false testimony from a co-conspirator regarding his plea agreement; 2) the prosecutor impermissibly used religious and other "vouching" to bolster co-conspirator's credibility; 3) the district court abused its discretion by barring evidence of co-conspirator's net profits from the conspiracy; 4) the district court abused its discretion by rejecting a series of requested jury instructions; 5) the cumulative impact of these same errors requires reversal; and 6) the conviction for conspiracy to launder money must be reversed due to the omission in the court's instructions of "willfulness" as an essential element of that crime.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/28/2007
• Published 11/28/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before ANDERSON and PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and ALBRITTON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• G. Richard Strafer, G. Richard Strafer, P.A., Miami, FL, for Dohan., Lennard B. Register, III, Pensacola, FL, E. Bryan Wilson, U.S. Atty., Tallahassee, FL, for U.S.