U.S. v. PIERCE

Nos. 99-1437, 99-1496.

224 F.3d 158 (2000)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Lyle David PIERCE, III, a/k/a Sealed Defendant #2, a/k/a Joe Martin, a/k/a Joe Boy, and Regina Pierce, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 22, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce R. Bryan, Syracuse, NY, for Appellant Lyle David Pierce, III (Lyle David Pierce, III, pro se, filed an additional brief).

James E. Long, Albany, NY, for Appellant Regina Pierce.

Barbara D. Cottrell, Assistant United States Attorney, Albany, N.Y. (Daniel J. French, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York and Gregory A. West, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), for Appellee United States of America.

Before: JACOBS, LEVAL, and SACK, Circuit Judges.


SACK, Circuit Judge:

In 1996 Lyle David Pierce, III, and his sister Regina Pierce, residents of the St. Regis Mohawk Indian Reservation, also known as Akwesasne, (the "Reservation") and five others were named as defendants in a single-count indictment accusing them of conspiracy to launder money in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)-(2) and (h). In 1999, following a bench trial, the Pierces were convicted in the United States District Court for the Northern...

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