Legal Opinion
United States v. Arthur Sutton
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 3, 1992No. 91-1536PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant Arthur Sutton and a codefendant, James T. Cornwell, were indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with various counts of mail and wire fraud. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343 (1988 & Supp. II 1991). According to the indictment, the charges arose out of “a scheme and artifice to defraud investors by means of a fraudulent real estate venture.” Cornwell pleaded guilty. Sutton stood trial. The district court dismissed the wire-fraud counts on a technicality (the government having bollixed the dates of relevant events in the charging papers). After…
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