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Parties Involved:
Paulette Kingston
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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TENTH CIRCUIT 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff - Appellee, 

v. 

PAULETTE KINGSTON, 

Defendant - Appellant. 

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ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 90-6400 

(D.C . No . CR-90-113-R) 

(W.D. of Okla.) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT! 

Before McKAY, Chief Judge, SETH, Circuit Judge, and FINESILVER, 

Chief District Judge2. 

Appellant, Paulette Kingston, appeals the Distri ct Court's 

denial of her motion for severance of defendants. A district 

court's denial of a motion to sever defendants will not be 

disturbed on appeal in the absence of an abuse of discretion. 

United States v. Mabry, 809 F.2d 671, 682 (10th Cir. ), cert. 

denied, 484 U.S. 874 (1987). We conclude the District Court did 

not abuse its discretion in denying Appellant's motion for 

severance. we find especially significant the fact that Appellant 

1 This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel . 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

2 Honorable Sherman G. Finesilver, Chief Judge, United States 

District Court for the District of Colorado, sitting by 

designation. 

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was acquitted of ten of the eleven counts charged whereas her codefendant was convicted on all common counts. The verdicts 

indicate that the jury meticulously afforded Appellant's case 

separate and impartial consideration. See United States v. 

Kabbaby, 672 F.2d 857, 862 (11th Cir. 1982). 

AFFIRMED. 

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Entered for the Court 

Monroe G. McKay 

Chief Judge 

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