United States v. Clayton R. Page, III

GEE, Circuit Judge:

Page, the holder of a doctoral degree in parasitology and a former university biology professor, appeals his criminal convictions of mail fraud and of having made false claims and false statements to agencies of the United States. His sole point for reversal is that the trial court erred in approving a waiver of jury trial. Implicated are the dual Constitutional guarantees of trial by jury 1 and the provisions of Rule 23(a), Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, providing, in part pertinent here, for trial by jury “unless the defendant waives a jury trial in writing . . . .…