Legal Opinion
United States v. Keith Vinson
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 24, 2017No. 15-4384PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
In October 2013, Keith Arthur Vinson was convicted in the Western District of North Carolina of various offenses arising from his leadership of schemes wherein fraud was systematically utilized to keep his real estate empire afloat. Vinson has appealed, contending primarily that the prosecution presented insufficient evidence of the crimes alleged. He also maintains that the trial court gave the jury an erroneous and prejudicial willful blindness instruction, and that his aggregate sentence of 216 months is substantively unreasonable. As explained below, we reject each of…
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