UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert Leo MORAN, Defendant-Appellant

TANG, Circuit Judge:

Robert Leo Moran was convicted of conspiring to defraud the I.R.S. by laundering funds from the sale of narcotics, and was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $10,000 on November 18, 1983. Moran had been indicted on seventeen counts, but the district court dismissed sixteen counts before trial on the basis that pre-indictment delay violated Moran’s due process rights. The government appeals the order dismissing the sixteen counts, asserting that Moran’s due process rights were not violated by investigative delay. Moran appeals his conviction, asserting that the…