United States v. John Edmund Patterson

FARRIS, Circuit Judge:

John Edmund Patterson appeals his conviction of one count of conspiring to make counterfeiting plates and counterfeit twenty dollar federal reserve notes, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 471, and 474 (1982); and of one count of counterfeiting federal reserve notes as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 471., The conviction followed a conditional guilty plea pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(a)(2). Patterson was sentenced to two years of probation.

Patterson argues (1) that the counterfeiting charges against him should have been dismissed pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4111 (1982) because he…