United States v. John Sinclair

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing that a witness “cannot testify about legal issues on which the judge will instruct the jury”
• expressing skepticism of expert “opinions about legal issues that will determine the outcome of the case”
• upholding the admission of partial copies of documents as “duplicates” of the originals
• enhancement appropriate where assistant vice president of bank proposed to split commissions from bank loan insurance policies with insurance broker
• sec. 3B1.3 increase was proper because base offense level for solicitation or acceptance of bribes did not take into account abuse of trust
• “Federal Rules of Evidence 702 and 704 prohibit experts from offering opinions about legal issues that will determine the outcome of a case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).