Karmann

FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND ORDER RE DENIAL OF RELEASE PENDING APPEAL

The defendant, in propria persona, having made an appropriate application for release after a judgment of conviction, and the Court having refused to release the defendant pending appeal, the Court now states in writing the reasons for this action in accordance with Rule 9(c) Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. These findings of fact and conclusions of law are based on the records and files of this case, and the pleadings herein, including the facts of this case, and oral argument at the time of sentencing. The Court makes the following Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law:

FINDINGS OF FACT

I

The defendant has engaged in a consistent and continuing course of conduct, deliberately, intelligently, and without equivocation, in defiance of the laws constitutionally enacted by the Congress of the United States, to wit, the Internal Revenue Code, as amended to date, 26 U.S.C., § 1 , et seq. In this regard, the defendant has been convicted by a jury of two violations of 26 U.S.C. § 7203 and one violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7205 .

II

The defendant has deliberately, intelligently, and knowingly…