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Criminal Law : Securities Fraud – Juror Misconduct – Sufficiency Of Evidence
Stephanie Maniscalco//August 7, 2015
Criminal Law : Securities Fraud – Juror Misconduct – Sufficiency Of Evidence
Stephanie Maniscalco//August 7, 2015
Where defendants who were convicted of various crimes for promoting and selling stock with no value challenged their convictions in a fraud case, the judgments are affirmed because a defendant who moved for severance failed to show that her defense theory contradicted that of a co-defendant, the district court’s denial of motions to subpoena various witnesses was not erroneous, the allegations of juror misconduct were not proven and the evidence was sufficient to support the convictions.
Judgment is affirmed.
U.S. v. Hawkins (MLW No. 68126/Case No. 13-3335 – 43 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Beam, J.) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, Wimes, J. (David Guastello, Kansas City, Missouri, David Andrew Kelly, Lee’s Summit, Stephen C. Moss, Kansas City, Missouri, Russell J. Shankland, Kansas City, Missouri, and Jack F. West, Kansas City, Missouri, for appellants) (Daniel M. Nelson, Kansas City, Missouri, for appellees).
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