United States Fourth Circuit

Defendant's counterfeiting conviction is affirmed where the evidence created a more than reasonable inference that defendant manufactured the counterfeit bills found in his residence. However, his sentence is vacated and remanded where the government failed to prove that defendant was an organizer or leader in the conspiracy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/21/2009
• Published 07/21/2009

Judges

• Before Sandra Day O'CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired), Supreme Court of the United States, sitting by designation, and NIEMEYER and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Jonathan D. Byrne, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellant.  Steven Loew, Office of the United States Attorney, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Mary Lou Newberger, Federal Public Defender, Edward H. Weis, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellant.  Charles T. Miller, United States Attorney, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellee.