Legal Opinion
United States v. Ernest Allen, AKA 1-95-M-1426-01
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 8, 1997No. 937, Docket 96-1305PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
Ernest Alen appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York convicting him, following a jury trial, of making two extortionate extensions of credit in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 892(a). On appeal, Alen claims that 18 U.S.C. § 892(a) is unconstitutionally vague as applied to the facts of his case, and that the jury instructions improperly favored the prosecution and failed to articulate the central theory of the defense. We conclude that Alen’s vagueness argument is better framed as a challenge to the sufficiency of the…
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