United States v. Djoumessi

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

The federal government successfully prosecuted Joseph Djoumessi for violating one (happily) obscure statute — holding someone in involuntary servitude — and for violating another less obscure statute— harboring an alien for private financial gain. Djoumessi claims that the charges violated his rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause and that the government failed to support the involuntary-servitude conviction (and a related conspiracy conviction) with sufficient evidence. We affirm.

I

In 1996, Joseph and Evelyn Djoumessi, immigrants from Cameroon living in a…