United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's marriage fraud conviction is affirmed where the circumstantial evidence was sufficient to justify a reasonable jury's conclusion that defendant knowingly entered into a marriage for the purpose of evading the immigration laws, and that he knowingly entered into an agreement for that purpose.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/10/2010
• Published 05/10/2010

Judges

• COLLOTON, Circuit Judge., Before BYE, BEAM, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lee Richard Johnson of St. Louis Park, MN, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David M. Genrich, Lee Ann K. Bell, AUSA, of Minneapolis, MN, for appellee.