Hughes v. United States

ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

Defendant, Martin J. Hughes, appeals from his conviction on twelve counts of a thirty-seven-eount indictment charging him with various federal criminal offenses. The government also appeals the district court’s decisions acquitting defendant on two of the counts and reducing his conviction to a lesser included offense on another count. For the reasons stated below, we affirm the district court’s judgment in part and reverse in part.

I

On May 6, 1986, the grand jury issued a thirty-seven-count indictment against defendant, a district vice-president for the…