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· 8/13/1991

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Alan SCOP and Raphael Bloom, Defendants-Appellants

Citations

  • 940 F.2d 1004
  • 33 Fed. R. Serv. 1245
  • 1991 U.S. App. LEXIS 18423

How courts have described this case

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  • holding “evidence ... was not unduly prejudicial” because “[i]t concerned truly similar activities rather than inflammatory criminal acts”
  • In the event the jury returns inconsistent verdicts, including an acquittal of one charge, “the government is prevented from upsetting the acquittal by the Double Jeopardy clause.”
  • “Though undoubtedly much evidence at trial concerned [the unnamed stocks], there was no shortage of evidence regarding [the defendants’] use of nominee accounts, for example, to buy [the named stocks].”
  • joint and several liability of two codefendants appropriate although third codefendant escaped criminal liability for restitution through plea agreement

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Judges: Cummings, Ripple, Fairchild

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