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· 12/12/2014

United States v. David Miner

Citations

  • 774 F.3d 336
  • 96 Fed. R. Serv. 208
  • 114 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 6901
  • 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 23367
  • 2014 WL 7003763

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a defendant’s general awareness of pending IRS investigations sufficiently meets the nexus element
  • differentiating the harmless error standard of review for a constitutional error — an erroneous jury instruction — from a non-constitutional evidentiary error
  • applying harmless-error review to the erroneous admission of an expert’s testimony that the defendant had acted intentionally
  • finding error harmless when “voluminous evidence was properly admitted at trial indicating” guilt
  • “[T]the government should not spoon-feed its theory of the case to the jury through a government agent.” (internal quotation marks, alternations, and citations omitted)
  • finding the error to be harmless given the other evidence

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Judges: Siler, Clay, Griffin

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