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Type
Opinion
Author
John Baylor Nalbandian
Filed
Jan. 22, 2019
Case
Paul Monea v. United States
Case status
Decided

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NALBANDIAN, Circuit Judge. After the FBI arrested Paul Monea for money laundering, he told his attorney that the undercover agent coerced him into committing the crime. Those claims turned into allegations that the government tampered with evidence. And eventually-after the jury convicted him-Monea found a witness claiming that the undercover FBI agent lied on the stand. So he asks the…

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