Legal Opinion
United States v. Farrington
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 24, 2007No. 06-3734PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
Byron Farrington was convicted of 34 counts of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. The district court 2 sentenced Farrington to 63 months’ imprisonment and ordered him to pay $258,566.76 in restitution. Farrington appeals, arguing that the court improperly allowed prejudicial evidence outside the scope of the indictment, that the court erred in calculating the loss and restitution amounts, and that his sentence is unreasonable. We affirm.
I. Background
Farrington formed Converge Now, LLC in August 2002, as a start-up wireless Internet service provider for the…
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