United States v. Samuel Naylor

On a verdict of guilty by a jury, the defendant Samuel Naylor was convicted on 9 counts of an 11-count indictment for conspiracy to commit and the commission of thefts and embezzlements of funds from an employee benefit plan in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 664, and 2. The present appeal urges reversal based on three assigned errors: (1) allowing defendant’s counsel on cross-examination of a co-defendant who testified as a government witness to elicit that the witness had pled guilty to numerous charges pursuant to a bargain with the government; (2) a remark by counsel for defendant in his…