United States v. Benjamin Hitchcock

Hitchcock appeals his conviction by a jury of six counts of presenting fraudulent income tax refund claims to the Internal Revenue Service. He was already serving a life term for murder in the Arizona State Prison when he committed these tax offenses for which he received six concurrent five year sentences to run consecutively to his life sentence. We affirm.

Appellant’s Arizona prison cell was searched without a warrant and documentary evidence was found which was received by the court over appellant’s motion to suppress. He contends that his Fourth Amendment right was violated by the…