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Fifth Circuit· 8/9/2007

United States v. Wright

Citations

  • 496 F.3d 371
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 18988
  • 2007 WL 2265622

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  • holding that a defendant’s flight out of a back door when officers arrived to arrest him did not warrant an enhancement because he was never taken into custody
  • upholding enhancement where defendant used fraudulent cashier’s checks to help borrowers falsely appear creditworthy
  • in which defendant purchased cashier’s checks in borrowers’ names to defraud mortgage companies into thinking borrowers had provided funds
  • cashier’s checks and a separate bank account that made it more difficult for the Government to detect tax evasion

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Judges: Higginbotham, Davis, Wiener

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