United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendants' conviction and sentence for multiple offenses including conspiracy, mail fraud, mail laundering, and interstate transportation of money obtained in fraud, are vacated in part and reversed in part where the current Eleventh Circuit pattern jury instruction for mail fraud, which omits the requirement of ordinary prudence by investors, seriously impaired defendants' ability to conduct their defense on the substantive counts of mail fraud.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/26/2008
• Published 03/26/2008

Judges

• PRYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT, ANDERSON, BIRCH, DUBINA, BLACK, CARNES, BARKETT, HULL, MARCUS, WILSON, PRYOR and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael R. Dreeben, Office of Sol. Gen., Michael A. Rotker and Nina Swift Goodman, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Crim. Div., App. Section, Washington, DC, Benjamin W. Beard, U.S. Atty., Robert G. Davies, Asst. U.S. Atty., Pensacola, FL, E. Bryan Wilson, U.S. Atty., Tallahassee, FL, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Goldberger, Ardmore, PA, E. Brian Lang (Court-Appointed), E. Brian Lang & Associates, Pensacola, FL, Michael S. Pasano, Carlton Fields, PA, Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellants.