U.S. v. CHIMAL

No. 91-2223.

976 F.2d 608 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Winona CHIMAL, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

September 24, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph C. Binford, Deming, N.M., for defendant-appellant.

Robert J. Gorence, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Don J. Svet, U.S. Atty., with him on the brief), Albuquerque, N.M., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BALDOCK, SETH and KELLY, Circuit Judges.


BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant Winona Chimal was charged with eleven counts of embezzlement from an Indian tribe. 18 U.S.C. § 1163. She was convicted on two counts, acquitted on one count, and the district court declared a mistrial on the remaining counts because the jury could not agree. Defendant appeals, raising the following points of error: (1) the government failed to prove a corpus delicti; (2) the trial court erred in allowing the prosecutor...

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