POSNER, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Mr. and Mrs. Davenport of having violated 31 U.S.C. § 5324(3), a statute enacted in 1986 to deter people from "structuring" their cash transactions with banks and other financial institutions (we shall, to simplify discussion, call all such institutions "banks") in such a way as to prevent the banks from filing currency transaction reports. The judge sentenced each of them to twelve months in prison.
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