Mealey's (May 6, 2020, 12:15 PM EDT) -- AIKEN, S.C. — An attorney for a man who pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to submit applications for life insurance policies that included false information about the individual’s income, health and mortgage information acted effectively when representing him because the attorney was not required to cite cases from beyond the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled May 1 in denying the defendant’s motion to vacate his five-year prison sentence (United States v. Douglas Wade Williamson, No. 17-cr-987-JMC-11, D. S.C., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77627)....