The following excerpt is from United States v. Bazar, Case No.: 15-CR-499-BEN (S.D. Cal. 2015):
"It is generally sufficient that an indictment set forth the offense in the words of the statute itself as long as 'those words themselves fully, directly, and expressly without any uncertainty or ambiguity set forth all the elements necessary to constitute the offence [sic] intended to be punished.'" Hamling v. United States, 418 U.S. 87, 117 (1974) (quoting United States v. Carll, 105 U.S. 611, 612 (1881)). When considering a motion
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to dismiss an indictment, "the district court is bound by the four corners of the [i]ndictment." United States v. Boren, 278 F.3d 911, 914 (9th Cir. 2002).
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