United States v. Nabila Mahbub

OPINION

DAMON J. KEITH, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted Nabila Mahbub of conspiring to commit healthcare fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1349. The district court sentenced Mahbub to a below-guidelines range sentence of forty-six months in prison. ' Mahbub timely appealed. On "appeal, Mahbub contends the following: (1) the district court erred in denying Mahbub’s challenge under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986); (2) the district court erred in using the Sixth Circuit pattern jury instruction regarding the criminal conspiracy claim; (3) Mahbub’s trial counsel rendered…