United States v. Supawan Veerapol

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• discussing circumstances such as “excessive working hours” that supported a jury finding of involuntary servitude
• reviewing for plain error a challenge to the sufficiency of the UNITED STATES v. ESQUIVEL-ORTEGA 5349 evidence where the defendant “failed to raise this claim at any point before the district court”
• finding sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction for involuntary servitude, based, in part, on the employer’s statement that “the police in the United States would arrest [the victim] as an illegal alien were [the victim] to seek their help”
• “Veerapol isolated her workers ... by prohibiting them from ... going to stores, speaking with her houseguests and the customers at the restaurant ... or using the telephone or mail.”

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