Legal Opinion
United States v. James L. Hays and Weldon J. Hays
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 25, 1989No. 88-1366PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:
Defendants-appellants James L. Hays and Weldon J. Hays appeal their convictions for conspiracy, misapplication of funds and making false entries in the records of a federally insured savings and loan association. Concluding that the district court’s admission of unnecessarily cumulative, prejudicial and irrelevant evidence impermissibly affected substantial rights of the defendants, we are constrained to reverse.
I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
In 1982, an appellant-defendant in this case, James Hays, became the president of Lancaster First Federal Savings and Loan…
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