Atwater v. State

Linda K. Atwater [“Atwater”] appeals the sentence she received for conspiracy to commit racketeering. We affirm.

In 1996, Atwater was charged by amended information with racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, two counts of petit theft, twenty-two counts of uttering a forged instrument, and organized fraud. The charges arose out of a check writing scheme in which the defendant and others would steal cheeks from businesses and then cash them at area banks or grocery stores using false identification. Three additional co-defendants were charged with varying offenses in the same…