United States v. Robert M. Burton, Peter Balogun

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• “A duplicitous indictment charges two or more separate and distinct crimes in a single count.”
• “An indictment is not duplicitous if, in one count, it charges a defendant with violating the statute in both ways.” (footnote omitted)
• “Where a penal statute, . . . prescribes several alternative ways in which the statute may be violated and each is subject to the same punishment . . . the indictment may charge any or all of the acts conjunctively, in a single count[.]”

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