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· 12/5/1979

United States v. Donald Thomas

Citations

  • 610 F.2d 1166
  • 1979 U.S. App. LEXIS 9952

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding no abuse of discretion in refusing to sever over 100 counts of medicare fraud
  • finding no abuse of discretion in refusing to sever over 100 counts of medicare fraud
  • finding no error in the district court’s denial of a severance motion where the defendant “has not met []his burden”
  • “[T]he jurors’ acquittal of [the defendant] on twenty-four of the thirty-one counts indicates that they were able to separate the evidence and decide the merits of each count independently of the others.”
  • “Because [the defendant] failed to present this objection in the first instance to the trial judge the person best able to weigh the competing interests at stake in a severance motion we decline to consider the point on appeal.”

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Judges: Adams, Per Curiam, Rosenn, Weis

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