United States v. Lacefield

GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Phillip Lacefield was prosecuted in two separate cases. The first case, Number 02-20051, involved offenses that Lacefield committed in 2000; he pleaded guilty to three counts of money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1957 and two counts of identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028(a)(7). The second case, Number 02-20203, involved offenses that Lacefield committed in 2001-2002; a jury convicted him of all five counts, specifically mail fraud, wire fraud, making a false statement on a loan application, and two counts of making false statements to the…