United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's Medicare fraud conviction is affirmed where, at the sentencing hearing, defendant did not object to the judge's comment about her national origin, or to anything else for that matter, and: 1) holding that the law did not require objections to statements appearing to indicate bias where there was none would be inconsistent with the law requiring objections where there is bias; and 2) such a holding would substantially undermine the important interests served by the contemporaneous objection rule.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/23/2010
• Published 12/23/2010

Judges

• Julie Carnes

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel