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U.S. v. EDWARDS

No. 01-30036.

303 F.3d 606 (2002)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edwin EDWARDS; Stephen Edwards; Cecil Brown; Andrew Martin; Bobby Johnson, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 23, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen A. Higginson, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Nathan Z. Dershowitz (argued), Amy M. Adelson, Dershowitz, Eiger, Adelson, New York City, Richard George Crane, Nashville, TN, Alan M. Dershowitz (argued), Harvard University, School of Law, Cambridge, MA, Mary Jane Marcantel, Baton Rouge, LA, for Edwin Edwards.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, WIENER and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:

After a long, complex trial, the former governor of Louisiana, his son, and several of his associates were convicted for their roles in various schemes to make money from Louisiana's riverboat gambling license process by exploiting the former governor's apparent ability to influence that process. The defendants appeal their convictions for, inter alia, extortion, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, making false statements, and RICO...

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