Legal Opinion
United States v. Hughes
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 8, 2000No. 99-1232PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
The defendant, Edward Hughes, was convicted by a jury on one count of attempted extortion. According to the government, Hughes attempted to extort money from his employer by murdering the company president, Brian McCarthy, in Mexico, reporting it as a kidnapping and issuing a phony ransom demand. On appeal, Hughes contends that: (1) the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction; (2) the government improperly made statements to the jury during closing argument that were unsupported by the evidence in the record; (3) the government’s failure to produce all of the…
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