United States v. Jackson

MEMORANDUM **

A jury convicted Defendant Charles Jackson, a criminal investigator employed by the Federal Protective Service (“FPS”), of falsifying records in a federal investigation, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1519 , by omitting a confession made by another FPS officer from an official investigation report. The district court sentenced Defendant to 24 months in prison and 2 years of supervised release. We affirm.

1. The district court denied Defendant’s motion for a judgment of acquittal or, in the alternative, for a new trial based on a claim of insufficient evidence to support a conviction. F.B.I. Agent Atkinson testified that Defendant admitted his failure to include the confession of FPS Officer John Haire in Defendant’s official report. Defendant told Atkinson “that he wrote a deliberately vague report to protect Haire from administrative, disciplinary or other criminal proceedings.” Additionally, Defendant admitted that it was wrong to leave out the confession. That testimony is sufficient to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1519 .

2. The district court instructed the jury on the definition of “knowingly” as used in § 1519. The district court appropriately…