United States Fourth Circuit

Conviction and sentence for conspiracy to hold another in involuntary servitude and harboring a juvenile alien are affirmed over principal claims that the district court erred by: 1) admitting evidence of sexual abuse of the victim by defendant's former husband and co-conspirator; 2) improperly admitting recorded telephone conversations between defendant's co-conspirator and the victim; and 3) including a special findings form on the second page of the general verdict form used to determine defendant's guilt or innocence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/01/2008
• Published 02/01/2008

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and John Preston BAILEY, United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Victoria Toensing, diGenova & Toensing, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Dirk Christian Phillips, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Brady Toensing, Joseph E. diGenova, diGenova & Toensing, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General, Jessica Dunsay Silver, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.