Legal Opinion
United States v. George Olmstead
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 29, 1987No. 86-1773PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant George Olmstead was convicted by a jury along with code-fendants Herbert Raymond and Waltham Screw Company for conspiring to submit false claims to the United States Government and for submitting, or aiding or abetting the submission of, fraudulent claims in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 286, 287. Olm-stead assigns four errors on appeal: that the trial court’s decision to exclude any definition of reasonable doubt from the instructions to the jury deprived him of due process of law; that the absence of an instruction cautioning the jury to view…
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