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· 1/6/1987

United States v. Vincent Caputo, and Vincent Potenza

Citations

  • 808 F.2d 963
  • 22 Fed. R. Serv. 447
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 901

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that in order to show prejudice a petitioner must demonstrate that but for counsel’s alleged error, the -result would have been different.
  • finding that defendants’ ties to prior credit card schemes were probative of their intent in possessing credit card account numbers to commit access device fraud
  • trial counsel not ineffective for not making a motion which he had no legal basis to make
  • “Where intent to commit the crime charged is clearly at issue, evidence of prior similar acts may be introduced to prove that intent.”

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Judges: Meskill, Miner, Altimari

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