United States Second Circuit

Convictions for securities fraud and conspiracy are upheld over claims that the prosecutor's argument, coupled with the district court's instruction, led the jury to convict the defendants on an unlawful theory.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/21/2006
• Published 03/21/2006

Judges

• RAKOFF, District Judge., Before:  NEWMAN and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joshua Klein, Assistant United States Attorney, New York, New York (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Rhonda L. Jung, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Raymond J. Lohier, Jr., Katherine Polk Failla, Assistant United States Attorneys, New York, New York, on the brief), for Appellee-Cross-Appellant., Miguel A. Estrada, Washington, D.C. (David Debold, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant Frank James Skelly., Stephen P. Scaring, Garden City, New York, for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Craig Gross.