United States v. Amos A. Hopkins

HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.

This is a direct appeal by the defendant-appellant Amos A. Hopkins from his convictions on eleven counts of mail fraud (Counts I through XI), 18 U.S.C. § 1341, and one count of conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 371 (Count XIV) to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1343. A co-defendant, Clifford Aaron Maston, was charged along with Hopkins on two of the mail fraud counts (Counts I and II) 1 and the conspiracy count (Count XIV), and individually on two mail fraud counts (Counts XII and XIII), under 18 U.S.C. § 1341 and 18 U.S.C. § 2, but Maston was acquitted on all…