Woodward v. United States

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

*42 In 1996, a jury convicted former Massachusetts state representative Francis H. Woodward of, among other crimes, honest-services mail and wire fraud. He appeals to us from the district court's denial of his most recent petition for a writ of error coram nobis. We conclude that the district court did not err in denying that petition.

I

A

Our opinion addressing Woodward's direct appeal from his conviction lays out the underlying facts in considerable detail. See United States v. Woodward ( Woodward I ), 149 F.3d 46 , 51-54 (1st Cir. 1998). We provide only a brief recap of…