Lawyer’s Obstruction Conviction Reversed 
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Published: September 28, 2011
Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Criminal, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III
In this appeal by a Maryland attorney convicted of multiple crimes arising from a scheme to launder drug proceeds he obtained from a client, the 4th Circuit affirms the lawyer’s money laundering convictions and denial of his motion to sever counts for failure to file income taxes, but reverses the lawyer’s conviction for obstruction of ...
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