Walls v. Hemingway’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Green v. United States · Abney v. United States · Oregon v. Kennedy · United States v. Dinitz
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“[Smarting in 1985, the appellant Felix Walls and a partner established and operated, for eight or nine years, a large-scale drug distribution network. The operation primarily transported drugs between California and Detroit, Michigan. Walls and his partner recruited others to work for the operation. According to the evidence, this conspiracy involved large amounts of cocaine, and on several occasions members of the conspiracy carried more than $1 million in cash. Four successive, almost identical indictments were returned against Walls, and he was twice convicted. The initial indictment was returned in January 1993 and charged Walls and others with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 , and conspiracy to launder money, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 . The indictment alleged that the conspiracies were “continuing to the date of this indictment.” When Walls was arrested in late 1994, the cases against his co-defendants had been concluded; an identical superseding indictment was returned that eliminated those defendants and added others. A jury convicted Walls under the two conspiracy counts. [Walls’s properly calculated guidelines range was 360-months-to-life imprisonment.] He was sentenced to concurrent terms of 360 months on the drug count and 60 months on the money laundering count. This court reversed his convictions and remanded his case for a new trial “[b]e-cause Walls was prevented from calling a wit”
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