United States Fourth Circuit

A defendant who transported criminal proceeds from one district to another in order to launder them in the latter district can be tried only in the district to which he transported the proceeds, unless the defendant is charged with money laundering offenses that began in the first district or involved transportation in interstate commerce.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/01/2001
• Published 02/01/2001

Judges

• Before WILKINS and KING, Circuit Judges, and GARWOOD, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Paul Graham Beers, Glenn, Feldman, Darby & Goodlatte, Roanoke, VA, for Appellant.  Thomas Ernest Booth, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Robert P. Crouch, Jr., United States Attorney, Jennie L.M. Waering, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee.