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142904P.pdf 07/31/2015 United States v. Frantz Pierre
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-2904
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman, Circuit Judge, and White,
District Judge]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Defendant's conviction in Florida district
court on a charge that he conspired to defraud the United States under 18
U.S.C. Sec. 286 did not present a Double Jeopardy bar to this Minnesota
prosecution on a charge of conspiring to defraud the United States as the
Florida case did not encompass either the same conspiracy charged here or
the money laundering offense charged in the Minnesota indictment; the
conspiracies involved different co-conspirators, occurred at different
times, used distinct methodologies and were focused in different states;
the substantive count of money laundering also does not place defendant in
jeopardy twice as no money laundering was charged in the Florida case; the
district court did not abuse its discretion by deciding this double
jeopardy issue without a hearing.