United States v. Leslie B. Riggins

OPINION

Before BROWNING and KENNEDY, Circuit Judges, and LUCAS, * District Judge. PER CURIAM:

Appellant Leslie Riggins was convicted of violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 2314, for causing a series of forged Traveler’s Express money orders to be transported in interstate commerce. The principal witness for the government was Barbara Shibuya, a former girlfriend of Riggins, who testified that she had cashed the money orders, which were all payable to her, at his direction. Riggins’ defense was that Shibuya had “framed” him. Riggins testified that Shibuya had shown him a number of money orders in…