United States v. David Staples, Also Known as Andrew N. Blatt

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the “decision not to call a witness is a ‘virtually unchallengeable’ decision of trial strategy”
• explaining that a sentencing “error is harmless if it is clear from the record that the district court would have given the defendant the same sentence regardless of which guidelines range applied”
• collateral is not to be deducted from the loss calculation where its existence has been hidden by the defendant
• “To calculate the sentencing range for a fraud case, we need to determine the amount of loss caused by the fraud.”
• “The decision not to call a witness is a virtually unchallengeable decision of trial strategy.”
• “An error is harmless if it is clear from the record that the district court would have given the defendant the same sentence regardless of which guidelines range applied.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).