United States v. Timothy M. Mucciante

How courts have described this case

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• holding that identity of victim is not an essential element of 18 U.S.C. 479, which forbids knowingly passing fraudulent government bonds
• holding that persecution denotes “extreme conduct”
• “[T]he inclusion of an aiding and abetting charge to the jury will rarely, if ever, constructively amend an indictment because an aiding and abetting charge is arguably implicit in every indictment.”
• \An aiding and abetting jury instruction is appropriate where the prosecution makes it known that it intends to proceed on a theory of aiding and abetting and the evidence so warrants.\
• “[G]enerally, a public employee acts under color of state law 22 while acting in his official capacity or while exercising his responsibilities pursuant to state law.” 23 (quoting West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42, 50 (1988))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).