Court Observation Outline

I. Introduction

II. Nature and Participants

United States of America vs. Charles "Chuck" Thomas

III. Testimony and Arguments defense

Main Argument of Defense

Family Issues

Plain Error

Violation of 6th Amendment

Blakely vs. Washington

Court's Response

V. What I Learned

I. Introduction

This was certainly not Charles Thomas's first time in a court room, several months before this he was being tired on a base offence level for money laundering with his partner Herbert Fletcher. Fletcher was tried in a different trial but was still called as a witness to this trial as a result of him pleading guilty and striking a deal with the court for his full cooperation. Through his cross examination we discovered that Thomas had wired money to several different banks throughout the states in order to hide the traces, and eventually wired a sum of 564,000 dollars into...