United States Fourth Circuit

Defendant's convictions for filing false tax returns and evading taxes, are affirmed where: 1) district court did not err in denying defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal as no complexity of tax law rendered his prosecution untenable and that the jury's verdict finding beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant had willfully falsified the character of his income on his tax returns was amply supported by the evidence presented at trial; 2) defendant's claims of prejudicial error under Rule 404(b) is rejected; and 3) the trial court was well within its broad discretion in denying defendant another continuance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/21/2011
• Published 01/21/2011

Judges

• DAVIS

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven M. Klepper, Joyce Kallam McDonald