Reggie Fullwood’s request for bill of particulars in federal trial was granted

Though House District 13 Democrat Reggie Fullwood‘s motion for a bill of particulars in his pending federal case “mystified” federal prosecutors, it nonetheless was granted by a federal judge in Jacksonville Tuesday.

“The Eleventh Circuit Pattern Jury Instruction for Wire Fraud states in part: ‘It’s a Federal crime to use interstate wire, radio, or television communications to carry out a scheme to defraud someone else.’ On or before May 19, 2016, the United States shall file a bill of particulars identifying the ‘someone else’ who Defendant allegedly intended to defraud,” wrote United States Magistrate Judge Joel Toomey.

Fullwood faces 14 federal counts: 10 for wire fraud and four for failure to file income tax returns.

“The Defendant has been made to understand the ‘another’ at issue is not the various contributors whose contributions may have been converted to Fullwood’s personal use. Thus, it is unclear from whom or what the funds were ’embezzled’,” Fullwood contended.

As Fullwood previously told FloridaPolitics.com, his plan is to prove the “indictment is a misrepresentation of what really happened.”

The bill of particulars, presumably, will allow him to do that.