United States v. James P. Hickok

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that defendant \used a variety of devices to obtain `things of value' that properly belonged to\ the victim
• explaining that defendant \used a variety of devices to obtain `things of value' that properly belonged to\ the victim
• stating that mail and wire fraud are specific intent crimes
• “Perjury is a well-established example of conduct that warrants an enhancement for obstruction of justice.”
• “Perjury is a well-established example of conduct that war- rants an enhancement for obstruction of justice.”
• “The ‘use of the mails’ element is satisfied if a defendant ‘knowingly causes the mails to be used in furtherance of a scheme to defraud.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).