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· 9/26/1989

United States v. Michael Robert Laykin, United States of America v. Dennis Lee Crain

Citations

  • 886 F.2d 1534
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 14452

How courts have described this case

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

  • discussing, in a federal criminal case, a variance between the date of conspiracy charged in the indictment and the proof at trial
  • describing as adequate notice an indictment that was uncertain as to time but alleged clear overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy
  • requiring only that the defendants had adequate notice of the charges against them
  • holding error harmless where limiting instruction was provided
  • 18 specific facts alleged in the indictment were sufficient to limit the time frame
  • no prejudice from four month variance in conspiracy's starting date

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Judges: Tang, Reinhardt, Wiggins

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