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United States v. Thomas Lucas, Jr.

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided February 27, 2017No. 15-41229PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Thomas Lucas, Jr., appeals his conviction on seven counts of wire fraud and one count of making false statements to an FBI agent. Lucas claims error in two evi-dentiary rulings and the denial of a new trial. We find no reversible error and affirm.

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Lucas was an employee of the Harry B. Lucas Company, a real estate investment business that had been founded by his grandfather and was run by Lucas’s father and two uncles. In 2005, Lucas initiated a fraudulent real estate investment scheme through the company after he returned from a bachelor party claiming to have…

2Cases cited23 opinions

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  4. United States v. MirandaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2001
  5. United States v. James WilliamsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990

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3Cited by20 opinions

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