Legal Opinion
United States v. Thomas Fornaro
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 11, 1990No. 431, Docket 89-1306PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Per curiam
Thomas Fornaro appeals a June 13, 1989, judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Warren W. Eginton, Judge, convicting him pursuant to a jury verdict of perjury in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623 (1982). Arguing that the district court misconstrued the federal statute in denying his pre-trial motion to dismiss the prosecution on grounds that he had recanted his prior false statements, that it improperly withheld his recantation defense from the jury, and that it wrongfully failed to charge the jury that willfulness is an element of perjury, Fornaro seeks…
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