United States v. Graziano J. Mancuso

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge.

Graziano Mancuso was convicted by a jury of attempting to evade income taxes for the years 1956 through I960. 1 In this appeal he attacks his conviction on two broad grounds: (1) insufficiency of the Government’s case based on the net worth method of proof, and (2) misconduct of Government agents amounting to a denial of his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel, his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, and his Fourth Amendment right to be secure from unreasonable search and seizure.

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The evidence was amply sufficient for the jury to…