United States Ninth Circuit

The crime of bankruptcy fraud under 18 U.S.C. section 157 requires a specific intent to defraud an identifiable victim or class of victims of the identified fraudulent scheme. A conviction and sentence for bankruptcy fraud is reversed where the evidence presented was insufficient to sustain the verdict.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2006
• Decided 02/05/2007
• Published 02/05/2007

Judges

• THOMAS, Circuit Judge., Before J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Shepard and James Mink, Heller Ehrman LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Kevin V. Ryan, Barbara Valliere, and Shawna Yen, United States Attorney's Office, San Jose, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.