U.S. v. TAYLOR

No. 90-5913.

966 F.2d 830 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Luther Langford TAYLOR, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 29, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel Wyman Collins, Jr., Collins & Lacy, Columbia, S.C., argued, for defendant-appellant.

John Michael Barton, Asst. U.S. Atty., Columbia, S.C., argued, (E. Bart Daniel, U.S. Atty., Scott N. Schools, Asst. U.S. Atty., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WIDENER and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and CHAPMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


OPINION

CHAPMAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Luther Langford Taylor, Jr., was convicted of six counts of conspiracy to violate and violation of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951. This conviction resulted from monetary payments made to him, while he was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by Ronald L. Cobb. Cobb was acting as a paid confidential informant for the FBI, which was investigating corruption within the South Carolina General Assembly...

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