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Date: 12-11-2021
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Case Number: 8:20-cr-00002-DOC
Judge: David O. Carter
Court: United States District Court for the Central District of Florida (Santa Ana County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: Assistant U.S. attorneys Greg Scally and Greg Staples.
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Santa Ana, California criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with first-degree murder within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
Hoang "Wayne" Xuan Le was charged with first-degree murder for killing Tri "James" Minh Dao, age 40, who was shot three times and thrown overboard three miles off shore.
Prosecutors said Le was actually motivated by Dao’s life insurance policy. They said Le had discussed killing Dao because Dao owed him $30,000 to $40,000, which he thought he could recover from a life insurance policy through Dao’s longtime girlfriend, Natalie Nguyen. Le placed a GPS tracker on Nguyen’s car and testified he did so because he wondered where Dao was and wanted to try to find him, but he admitted in cross-examination that the tracker was for Nguyen, not Dao.
Outcome: Defendant was found guilty.
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