United States v. Michael Abbell

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the transaction provision, although designed to punish those who “attemp[t] to legitimize their proceeds,” may be satisfied without proof that a particular defendant did so
• explaining that the trial court found there was no substantial possibility that the juror's position was based on her evaluation of the merits of the case
• explaining that the trial court found there was no substantial possibility that the juror’s position was based on her evaluation of the merits of the case
• noting that the excused juror’s “own testimony on her commitment to following the law was not certain”
• reasoning that only a small amount of tainted money needed to be commingled to taint even the legitimate money
• noting that a district court “appl[ies] the ‘substantial possibility’ standard to [its] own investigation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).