Legal Opinion
United States v. John Torkington
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 7, 1989No. 88-5319PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal arises from the district court’s grant of defendant’s motion for entry of judgment of acquittal under Fed.R. Crim.P. 29 on charges that defendant trafficked and attempted to traffic in counterfeit Rolex watches in violation of 18 U.S.C. A. § 2320(a). We reverse and remand with the direction that the case be reassigned to a different district judge.
I. FACTS
In 1985, attorneys for Rolex Watch, U.S.A., filed a civil action in the Southern District of Florida alleging that merchants at the Thunderbird Flea Market in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were selling counterfeit Rolex watches. The…
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