United States v. Hoover

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting defendant’s “overly technical” argument “that the indictment failed to allege a false statement because ‘complained’ and ‘told’ are not synonymous terms”
• rejecting defendant’s “overly technical” argument “that the indictment failed to allege a false statement because ‘complained’ and ‘told’ are not synonymous terms”
• alleging one false statement in indictment but proving another at trial was constructive amendment
• reversing and remanding based on a constructive amendment of the indictment, where, inter alia, the defendant “may have reasonably relied on the indictment and only prepared a [limited] defense”
• “[W]hen the [G]overnment chooses to specifically charge the manner in which the defendant’s statement is false, the [G]overnment should be required to prove that it is untruthful for that reason.”
• “[W]hen the [G]overnment chooses to specifically charge the manner in which the defendant’s statement is false, the [G]overnment should be required to prove that it is untruthful for that reason.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).