Legal Opinion
United States v. Tum
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 1, 2013No. 11-1624PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
Overview
Abdela Turn asks us to overturn his bench-trial convictions for violating and conspiring to violate the federal wire-fraud statute, a law that (at the risk of oversimplification) criminalizes a scheme to defraud involving an interstate-wire communication. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 and 1349. Turn’s attack basically comes in two waves. Convinced that the evidence failed to show that he had caused an interstate-wire transmission, he argues first that his wire-fraud convictions cannot stand. Reminding us that conspiracy involves a knowing agreement between two or more…
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