U.S. v. COTHRAN

No. 01-30743.

302 F.3d 279 (2002)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David Lee COTHRAN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 8, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cristina Walker, Asst. U.S. Atty., Shreveport, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

David Lee Cothran, Shreveport, LA, pro se.

Before DAVIS, SMITH and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.


JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

David Cothran pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 2. He attacks his conviction and sentence on many grounds. Finding no error, we affirm.

I.

Cothran owned Capricorn Services, which sold computers. The business fell on hard times, and Cothran began defrauding his suppliers. The government maintains that the scope of his intentional fraud swept broadly; Cothran states...

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