United States First Circuit

Defendants' convictions for various crimes arising out their involvement in a mortgage fraud scheme, are affirmed where: 1) defendants' various challenges to the district court's management of the case, evidentiary rulings, jury instructions, sentencing calculation, and other rulings are meritless; 2) defendant's arguments that a district court may not undermine a jury's nullification power by explicitly instructing the jury that it has a duty to return a guilty verdict if it is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt of a defendant's guilt is without merit; and 3) there was no error in the district court's loss calculation methodology and none in its mathematical application of this methodology, which produced an intended loss amount within the range contemplated by U.S.S.G. section 2B1.1(b)(1)(J).

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/19/2012
• Published 09/19/2012

Judges

• Lipez

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel