Legal Opinion
United States v. Sanford I. Atkin
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 4, 1997No. 95-4040PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILES, District Judge.
Defendant Sanford I. Atkin, an attorney, appeals Ms conviction and sentence on multiple charges arising out of Ms acceptance of $550,000 from Reuben Sturman, a defendant in a federal tax prosecution. In the indictment, the government alleged, among other things, that Atkin had obtained the money from Sturman by falsely representing that he, Atkin, would bribe the UMted States District Judge presiding over Sturman’s criminal case. Atkin never did bribe the judge, and he now challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support Ms convictions on two counts of obstruction…
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