United States v. Curtis Babb

GENE CARTER, District Judge.

Once again we are faced with an appeal in which a convicted defendant-appellant seeks to overturn his conviction by alleging prosecutorial misconduct. In this case, defendant-appellant Curtis Babb claims that his conviction for committing perjury before a United States grand jury is fundamentally unfair because the prosecutor falsely assured him, immediately before his grand jury testimony and in the presence of the grand jury, that he was neither a subject nor a target of the grand jury’s inquiry. Alternatively, Babb urges us to exercise our supervisory powers to…