Legal Opinion
United States v. Teresa Prescott
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 8, 1994No. 93-4012PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.
Teresa Prescott appeals from her conviction of money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (1988 and Supp.V. 1993), arguing that the indictment in Count 8 charged a course of conduct rather than a specific transaction of money laundering. Prescott contends that the indictment therefore did not describe an offense under the statute, and the district court 1 had no jurisdiction to try her. We conclude that while the count charging Prescott with money laundering is defective and duplicitous because it alleges multiple transactions rather than a single…
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