United States v. Colorado Cessa, No. 16-50326 (5th Cir. 2017)
Annotate this CaseThe Fifth Circuit held that a superseding indictment is lawful when returned by a grand jury located in the venue where the alleged crime occurred but from which the case has been transferred. Furthermore, it was not reversible error to include definitions of "offer" and "promise" that defendant wanted in the jury charge on bribery where these terms were not so technical or inscrutable that a definition was necessary. In this case, defendant was first convicted of money laundering and facing a sentence before a federal judge in Austin. Defendant was then charged with bribing the federal judge in Austin, successfully obtained a transfer of the bribery case to federal court in Louisiana, and found guilty of both conspiring to bribe and offering a bribe to the judge presiding over his money laundering case.
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