United States Fourth Circuit

The failure to properly instruct the jury that it had to unanimously agree on three violations for a continuing criminal enterprise conviction was harmless when evidence showed hundreds of felony violations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/22/2000
• Published 11/22/2000

Judges

• Before WIDENER and MOTZ, Circuit Judges, and Irene M. KEELEY, United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Keith Loren Kimball, Colgan & Kimball, P.L.C., Virginia Beach, Virginia, for Appellants.  Vincent L. Gambale, Assistant United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Douglas Fredericks, Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellants.  Helen F. Fahey, United States Attorney, Laura Pellatiro Tayman, Assistant United States Attorney, Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee.