fraud-scheme

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6560 Tamaz Pasternak, aka Tomas Pasternak v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law federal-statute fraud-scheme property-deception statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether a scheme to induce a transaction in property through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitutes a scheme …
21-7923 Charles K. Topping and J. W. Long, aka James Wayne Long v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process essential-element fraud-scheme jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct theory-of-defense Where the district court's instructions to the jury in a criminal case provide—as part of the theory of defense instruction—an explanation of an essen…