United States v. Forehand

OPINION AND ORDER

Myron H. Thompson, District Judge.

Defendant Edward Lincoln Forehand is charged with wire, mail, and securities fraud, and transacting in criminally derived property, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1843 and 1341, 15 U.S.C. § 77q(a), and 18 U.S.C. § 1957(a). Before the court is the government’s pretrial motion to exempt its expert witness from sequestration pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 615(c). For reasons that will be explained, the motion will be granted.

Upon “a party’s request, the court must order witnesses excluded so that they cannot hear other witnesses’ testimony.”…