United States v. Warren L. Pindell

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GARLAND.

GARLAND, Circuit Judge:

In 1999, defendant Warren Pindell was an officer of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, working a prostitution detail on Georgia Avenue, N.W. By 2001, Pindell’s law enforcement career was over. In March of that year, a federal jury convicted him of, among other things, depriving thirteen men of their civil rights by robbing them while they were apparently soliciting the services of prostitutes. The defendant’s modus operandi was as follows: After a would-be customer picked up a prostitute…