United States DC Circuit

Convictions on charges of conspiracy and wire fraud are affirmed where the provision of a willful blindness instruction constituted harmless error, and application of the remedial holding in Booker did not violate ex post facto principles of due process.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2006
• Published 01/31/2006

Judges

• Before:  RANDOLPH and ROGERS, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• W. Douglas Wham, appointed by the court, argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Chrisellen R. Kolb, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellee.   With her on the brief were Kenneth L. Wainstein, U.S. Attorney, and John R. Fisher and Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorneys.