Legal Opinion
United States v. Cecil Eugene Ballew, A/K/A Eugene Ballew
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 28, 1994No. 94-2008PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Cecil Eugene Ballew was tried before a jury and convicted of one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343. The fraud charges against Ballew stemmed from a false claim that his red 1987 Chevrolet pick-up truck had been stolen. The District Court1 sentenced Ballew to 21 months in prison on each count, to be served concurrently, and two years of supervised release. Ballew appeals both his convictions and his sentences. We affirm.
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By way of background, we summarize the government’s evidence in this case. Responding to a previous…
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