Legal Opinion

United States v. Perez

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided July 6, 2010No. 08-2566PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MANION, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted Flavio Perez of two counts of filing false federal income tax returns. The district court sentenced Perez to 33 months’ imprisonment. Perez appeals, claiming that the district court violated his right to be present at trial by conducting a jury instruction conference in his absence. He also challenges the district court’s failure to provide a jury instruction on the government’s net worth and expenditure method of proof, its limitation on expert testimony, and the sufficiency of the evidence. We affirm.

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2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. United States v. OlanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  2. Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  3. Holland v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
  4. Spies v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
  5. Cheek v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1991

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