United States v. Wayne Bryant

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that it is the defendant's burden to prove offsets that lessen a restitution award
• rejecting a challenge to the wording of a specific instruction partly because jury was told “to consider all of the ‘instructions as a whole’”
• rejecting a challenge to the wording of a specific instruction partly because jury was told “to consider all of the ‘instructions as a whole’”
• New Jersey state senator charged with mail fraud for fraudulently inflating pension eligibility through no-show jobs
• “To prove mail fraud, the government must establish (1) the defendant’s knowing and willful participation in a scheme or artifice to defraud, (2) with the specific intent to defraud”
• “[W]here offsets are claimed, such as for compensation that the victim gets from other sources, other Courts of Appeals have concluded that it is the defendant’s burden to prove those offsets.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).