United States v. Angelique Bankston

OPINION

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Asserting that her trial on twenty-three fraud-related charges was flawed by numerous errors, Defendant-Appellant Angelique Bankston asks us to vacate all of her convictions and remand for a new trial. In particular, she argues that (1) her waiver of counsel was invalid, (2) she was improperly charged in count 23 with making false statements to a judge in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, (3) the trial proceedings were procedurally deficient due to judicial bias, prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective assistance of counsel, and (4) the evidence was insufficient to…