Legal Opinion
United States v. Ronald L. Davenport and Betty L. Davenport
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 9, 1991No. 90-2500, 90-2501PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Mr. and Mrs. Davenport of having violated 31 U.S.C. § 5324(3), a statute enacted in 1986 to deter people from “structuring” their cash transactions with banks and other financial institutions (we shall, to simplify discussion, call all such institutions “banks”) in such a way as to prevent the banks from filing currency transaction reports. The judge sentenced each of them to twelve months in prison.
Sometime before November 5, 1987, the Davenports obtained possession of some $100,000 in cash — how, we do not know. Between November 5 and November 19 they…
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