Legal Opinion
United States v. David Sklena
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 23, 2012No. 11-2589PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
In March 2009, David Sklena and his co-defendant Edward Sarvey were charged with seven counts of wire and commodity fraud, as well as two counts of noncompetitive futures contract trading. Sarvey died before the start of his trial, but Sklena went to trial. There he sought to use Sarvey’s deposition before the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as evidence of his innocence, but the district court excluded it as inadmissible hearsay and eventually convicted Sklena of seven of the nine charged counts. Sklena now appeals. He argues that the government’s evidence…
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