United States v. McCann

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Following an eight-day trial, a jury convicted defendant Dana Dray McCann (a/ k/a Danny Combs and D. Dacques Sonner) of mail fraud, wire fraud, and engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived funds (“money laundering”). See 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343, & 1957. This appeal requires us to decide (1) whether the evidence was sufficient to support the mail-fraud conviction, (2) whether the district court abused its discretion in making two evidentiary rulings, (3) whether it was plain error for a federal agent to testify that, during a non-custodial interrogation,…