United States v. Edward F. McDonough Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the defendant's appeal focused on \the element of the extortion victim's state of mind\
• upholding conviction where scheme involved kickbacks to the appellant totaling “nearly $100,000, for which [he] performed almost no work”
• conviction under mail fraud indictment will stand if evidence indicates statute violated in either of two ways charged
• “As to the others, it is difficult to see how jurors who are aware of the existence of a news article, but unaware of its content, could be prejudiced by such awareness.”
• jurors are presumed to follow instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).