Legal Opinion
United States v. Carol W. Donathan
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 19, 1995No. 95-5051PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted defendant Carol W. Dona-than of corruptly seeking and accepting $20,-000 to be influenced in her testimony as a witness under oath in a civil lawsuit pending in federal court, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 201(b)(4). Defendant now appeals, asserting that the evidence was insufficient to support her conviction, that the District Court failed to properly instruct the jury and that her sentence is improper. For the following reasons, we affirm.
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On August 3,1994, a grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky indicted Carol Donathan on charges of seeking and accepting…
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