U.S. v. BARSON

No. 15-20416.

845 F.3d 159 (2016)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Dennis BARSON, Jr.; Dario Juarez, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Revised December 29, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francesco Valentini , U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, Renata Ann Gowie , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Philip Harlan Hilder , Paul L. Creech , Sunida L. Mejia , James Gregory Rytting , Quentin Tate Williams , Hilder & Associates, P.C., Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant Dennis Barson, Jr.

Mark Russell Yanis , Costa Mesa, CA, for Defendant-Appellant Dario Juarez.

Before REAVLEY, DAVIS, and JONES, Circuit Judges.


Defendants appeal their convictions for conspiracy to commit health care fraud and several substantive counts of health care fraud. Defendants primarily challenge the sufficiency of the evidence, the court's deliberate ignorance jury instruction, a number of evidentiary rulings, and the enhancements applied to their sentences. We AFFIRM.

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