UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINACOLUMBIA DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. JACK W. PARKER, Defendant. CRIMINAL ACTION NO. 3:13-CR-133 MOTION TO SUPPRESS TAMMYPARKER’S CALENDAR NOTESDefendant Jack Parker, through his undersigned attorneys, respectfully moves to suppress Tammy Parker’s calendar notes as inadmissible hearsay. 1 FACTS The Government has indicted Jack Parker, Brett Parker, and Doug Taylor on federal gambling charges . 18 U.S.C. §1955 requires, among other elements, that at least five people conduct, finance, manage, supervise, direct, or own all or part of an illegal gambling business that has been in substantially continuous operation for a period longer than 30 days or has a gross revenue of $2000.00 on any single day. For the purposes of this motion, and without waiving any future defenses, counsel assumes the following facts: Jack Parker and Doug Taylor were in the bookmaking business together and Brett Parker and Bryan Capnerhurst were in the bookmaking b usiness together. Neither Brett Parker nor Jack Parker ran a bookmaking operation of sufficient size to trigger federal jurisdiction. The Government alleges there were times the two operations worked together. The Governmen t has produced no discovery to support the operations working together in conjunction in a continuous manner up to February of2012. The Government has produced evidence suggesting the two operations may have been joined for a 56-day pe riod du ring the 20 12 NCA A baske tball season. There does not appear to be any other 30-day period where the two operations were joined and operated in a substantially continuous manner. Defendant is unaware of which days, if any, the Government alleges there was gross revenue of $2000.00. 1 The notes that are the subject of this motion are attached as exhibits. 3:13-cr-00133-CMC Date Filed 08/01/13 Entry Number 83 Page 1 of 3
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8/22/2019 Motion to Suppress Tammy Parker's Calendar Notes
The Government might be able to make a case for a four-person gambling
operation on some occasions, but an operation of that size would not be illegal under
federal law. In order to successfully convict the Defendants, the Government must prove
the existence of a fifth person in the gambling operation. §1955 only prohibits “those
gambling operations that involve at all times during some thirty day period at least five
persons who ‘conduct, finance, manage, supervise, direct, or own’ the business.” United
States v. Gresko, 632 F.3d 1128, 1132 (4th Cir. 1980). In the event the Government
intends to proceed under the “$2000.00 gross on one day” portion of the statute, the
same rule applies; there must be five people on that specific day.
In the search for the fifth person necessary for this prosecution, it appears the
Government has settled on Tammy Parker as a potential fifth person in the gambling
operation. The only evidence to support her involvement in the gambling operation arethe attached calendar notes.2
It is unlikely the attached notes are enough to call Tammy Parker a person who
“conducted, financed, managed, supervised, directed, or owned” the gambling business.
She was simply adding a line on an informal budget for money that may or may not have
materialized from Brett Parker’s booking business. In any event, the calendar notes are
inadmissible hearsay.
Hearsay is a statement the declarant made not while testifying at the current trial
or hearing and offered by a party to prove the truth of the matter asserted in thestatement. FRE, Rule 801(c)(1)-(2). The attached documents are statements made by
Tammy Parker which the Government alleges contain evidence of her involvement in the
gambling operation. The documents are being offered to prove Tammy was involved in
the gambling operation; the matter asserted in the documents.
These documents are inadmissible hearsay, meet no exception to the hearsay
rule, and should be deemed inadmissible.
2 A Secret Service report reflects that a witness told the agents he delivered gamblingproceeds to Tammy one day and she remarked that she had collected from severalpeople. However, the written statement by that same witness reflects no such event. Noother witness has ever claimed Tammy collected gambling debts or had any involvementin the gambling operation.
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8/22/2019 Motion to Suppress Tammy Parker's Calendar Notes