United States v. Michael W. Trammell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an insurance agent who solicited funds from investors by representing that he would purchase annuities for them, and then spent the funds for his own benefit, abused a position of trust
• stating that duplicitous indictment can be cured by requiring jury unanimity on one particular act charged in count
• noting that in limited circumstances, “a defendant can raise a late challenge to a duplicitous indictment if cause is shown that might justify the granting of relief from the waiver” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• affirming district court’s finding that three-year and nine-month preindictment delay attributable to backlog of cases and shortages of attorneys did not show intent to injure defendant

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