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· 11/18/1993

United States v. Richard F. Tylkowski and Timothy P. Tylkowski

Citations

  • 9 F.3d 1255
  • 39 Fed. R. Serv. 1346
  • 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 29978

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that courts must “analyz[e] each instance 10 where the adverse inference was drawn, or not drawn, on a case-by-case basis under the 11 microscope of the circumstances of that particular civil litigation”
  • holding even threats of discipline would suffice
  • \Evidence of another crime which tends to undermine the defendant’s innocent explanations for his act will be admitted.\
  • “[T]he government was entitled to introduce the challenged weapons to rebut Richard’s claim that [he] lacked the requisite knowledge of the contents of the sealed boxes.”
  • circum- stantial evidence of defendant’s control over a box sufficient to support the reasonable inference that he knew it con- tained illegally converted machine guns with obliterated serial numbers

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Judges: Bauer, Kanne, Wood

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