· 4/28/1987
United States v. Wayne E. Kwiat, Edward J. McKeown and Kevin D. Kehoe
Citations
- 817 F.2d 440
- 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 5570
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- refusing to find judicial misconduct where judge “showed asperity in front of the jury no more than five times during an extended trial”
- reversing a mail fraud conviction where “honest services would have produced the same sort of mailings” as the ones the defendants made
- reversing mail fraud conviction of corporate officer through scheme for self‐deal‐ ing: “Neither the language nor the legislative history of § 1341 hints that it is an all‐purpose remedy for corporate misman‐ agement.”
- “Yet a judge also must regulate the conduct of a trial, and this will require taking sides in skir-mishes_”
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Judges: Coffey, Flaum, Easterbrook
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