United States v. Franklyn G. Perry

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the defendant “opened the door” 4 to detailed cross on prior convictions by attempting to explain them away
• holding that the defendant opened the door when he attempted to “explain away” his prior convictions “by offer- ing his own version of the underlying facts” (internal quota- tion marks omitted)
• “clearly wrongful” for government to serve subpoenas on defense counsel when case is only five days away from trial and subpoena requires attorney to divulge fee arrangement with client
• admission of a bankruptcy court opinion which determined certain property transfers were fraudulent was not plain error and jury could infer defendant's criminal intent to evade income taxes from it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).