Legal Opinion
United States v. James C. Curtis
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 28, 1986No. 85-5070PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOINER, Senior District Judge.
This is the appeal of James C. Curtis from his conviction for income tax evasion pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 7201. The appeal raises three questions: 1) the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the conviction; 2) the correctness of the jury instructions regarding the definition of income; and 3) the correctness of the trial judge’s refusal to allow expert testimony and refusal to give an instruction on the unsettled and complex nature of the law.
Defendant was indicted on October 3, 1984, on three counts of income tax evasion for the calendar years 1978,1979, and…
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