United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's social security benefits fraud conviction is affirmed where: 1) the district court properly admitted defendant's loan application and letter into evidence as business records under Fed. R. Evid. 803(6); and 2) even assuming, without deciding, that the government's questions on cross-examination were plainly improper, the errors were not so prejudicial as to affect the outcome of the trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/16/2009
• Published 12/16/2009

Judges

• GRUENDER, Circuit Judge., Before MELLOY, GRUENDER and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elizabeth Unger Carlyle, Columbus, MS, argued, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William A. (Trey) Alford III, Spec. Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, MO, argued (Matt J. Whitworth, Acting U.S. Atty., Phillip Eugene Porter, Asst. U.S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.