Eleventh Circuit· 8/19/2009

United States v. Maxwell

Citations

579 F.3d 1282
2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 18750
2009 WL 2513619

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explaining that mail and wire fraud require the government to prove that the defendant “knew of and willfully joined in the unlawful scheme to defraud”
noting that the requisite intent for the substantive count and the conspiracy count may be established by circumstantial evidence
explaining that the district court is not obliged to present jury instructions that “contain partisan and argumentative statements of law and fact”
permitting the jury to infer an intent to defraud when a defendant completes the fraudulent act
characterizing a contract received under a federally funded Disadvantaged Business Enterprises program—for the purpose of “help[ing] small minority-owned businesses develop and grow”—as a government benefit
permitting the jury to infer an intent to defraud when a defendant completes the fraudulent act

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Judges: Birch, Marcus, Forrester

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