Legal Opinion
United States v. Upton
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 5, 2009No. 05-1593PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted George Upton of conspiracy to commit money laundering. In this appeal, he argues that, by the time of his indictment, the statute of limitations period had run on all of his conduct except for the filing of a false tax return and the failure to file a tax return. Upton asserts that, under governing Supreme Court precedent cabining the government’s ability to charge continuing conspiracies based on subsequent acts of cover-up, the two tax offenses were not part of the conspiracy. From this premise he contends both that he was entitled to a jury…
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