Sufficiency of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//November 7, 2017//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Wanda Shorter

Case No.: 16-2053

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, FLAUM, Circuit Judge, and CONLEY, District Judge

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence

In 2014, following investigations by the Indiana Attorney General and FBI, a grand jury issued a four-count indictment for Medicaid fraud against defendants Wanda Shorter and her company, Empowerment Non-Emergency Medical Transport, Inc. (“Empowerment”). Specifically, Shorter and Empowerment were charged with one count of health care fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1347, and three counts of misusing a means of identification in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A. After a petit jury found her guilty on all four counts, Shorter filed this direct appeal, challenging the indictment, the admission of certain evidence at trial and the sufficiency of the evidence as a whole. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

Affirmed

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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