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U.S. v. RUAN

No. 17-12653.

966 F.3d 1101 (2020)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Xiulu RUAN, John Patrick Couch, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 10, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sonja Ralston , U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, Christopher John Bodnar , Scott Alan Gray , Deborah A. Griffin , U.S. Attorney Service — Southern District of Alabama, U.S. Attorney's Office, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Dennis J. Knizley , Law Office of Dennis J. Knizley, Mobile, AL, Nicholas A. Lotito , Davis Zipperman Kirschenbaum & Lotito, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Gordon Gray Armstrong, III , Gordon G. Armstrong, III, PC, Mobile, AL, Jason Darley , Darley Law Firm, LLC, Mobile, AL, L. Burton Finlayson , Law Office of L. Burton Finlayson, LLC, Atlanta, GA, Steve Martinie , Steve Matinie Law Office, Whitefish Bay, WI, Page Anthony Pate , Pate Johnson & Church, LLC, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant XIULU RUAN.

Jackson Roger Sharman, III , Jeffrey Paul Doss , Brandon K. Essig , Robert Jackson Sewell , Benjamin Sanders Willson , Lightfoot Franklin & White, LLC, Birmingham, AL, Arthur T. Powell, III , Arthur T Powell III, PC, Mobile, AL, for Defendant-Appellant John Patrick Couch.

Before WILSON and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges, and COOGLER, District Judge.

Following a seven-week trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, pain management physicians Xiulu Ruan ("Ruan") and John Patrick Couch ("Couch") (together, "the appellants") were convicted by a jury of conspiring to run a medical practice constituting

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