United States First Circuit

Defendant's conviction of ten counts of submitting fraudulent federal tax returns is affirmed, where the district court did not err in: 1) finding that the jury instruction preventing the jury from considering a co-worker's criminal conduct as propensity evidence under the Federal Rules of Evidence Rule 404(b) was harmless error; 2) declining to strike the summary testimony of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Agent Mitchell; and 3) refusing to grant defendant's motion for acquittal on Count Eight pursuant to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 29.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/28/2014
• Published 07/28/2014

Judges

• MCCONNELL

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel