Criminal Practice - Continuing Criminal Enterprise – Non-Jurisdictional Defect

Chadwell Brings White-Collar Criminal Defense Practice to Plunkett Cooney | Corp! Magazine

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth R. Chadwell recently joined Plunkett Cooney, one of the Midwest’s oldest and most accomplished full-service law firms, to establish a White-collar Criminal Defense & Corporate Investigations Practice Group. An of counsel member of the firm’s Detroit office, Chadwell worked for nearly 40 years in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) […]

Criminal Practice - Continuing Criminal Enterprise – Non-Jurisdictional Defect

Although our precedent compels us to hold that the indictment charging defendant with continuing criminal enterprise contained a non-jurisdictional defect, such defect did not prejudice defendant. We discerned no prejudicial error. In 2019, defendant was indicted for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. In 2021, a grand jury issued superseding indictments charging defendant