United States v. Floyd Bruce

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WALD.

WALD, Circuit Judge:

In February 1995, a jury convicted Floyd Bruce of two criminal counts stemming from his participation in a scheme to defraud Signet Bank. The defendant now raises two challenges to his conviction, claiming first that the bank fraud count in the indictment was duplicitous, and second, that his attorney labored under an actual conflict of interest which rendered his trial fundamentally unfair.

We reject both arguments. With respect to the defendant’s first challenge, we find that Bruce’s indictment correctly charged him with a…