United States Sixth Circuit

Fraud convictions and sentence are affirmed where the record fully supports a finding that defendant's training and licensing as an emergency room nurse enabled her to obtain medications and administer them in an injectable form in order to set the stage for her crime and to divert suspicion from herself.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/06/2003
• Published 10/06/2003

Judges

• Before MERRITT, MOORE, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• R. Leigh Grinalds (argued and briefed), Assistant United States Attorney, Jackson, TN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Stephen B. Shankman (argued and briefed), M. Dianne Smothers (briefed), Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, for Defendant-Appellant.