United States Second Circuit

Defendant's inducement of travel in interstate commerce for a fraudulent purpose conviction is affirmed over his challenges that 1) the person induced to travel interstate was not the person defrauded, 2) the district court erred in restricting the cross-examination of the victim and in improperly instructing the jury, and 3) the prosecutor made improper statements in her summation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/28/2004
• Published 07/28/2004

Judges

• GIBSON, Circuit Judge., Before:  CARDAMONE, SACK, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• William M. Bloss, Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt & Dow, P.C., New Haven, CT, for Defendant-Appellant., Barbara Underwood, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel, for the Eastern District of New York, Catherine L. Youssef, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel, for the Eastern District of New York (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney, and Peter A. Norling, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee.