United States v. Svete

Upon the majority vote of the judges in this court in active service, on July 1, 2008, this court vacated this panel’s prior opinion and granted rehearing en banc. See 532 F.3d 1133 (11th Cir.2008) (en banc); 521 F.3d 1302 (11th Cir.2008), vacated and reh’g en banc granted, 532 F.3d 1133. En banc, this court decided the question of whether the crime of mail fraud, which prohibits “any scheme or artifice to defraud” by use of the mail, 19 U.S.C. § 1341, requires proof that the scheme be capable of deceiving a reasonably prudent person or whether schemes aimed at the gullible or improvident…