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U.S. v. Brown, No. 93-4063 (11th Cir.) (79 F.3d 1550) (April 16, 1996) (Judge James Larry Edmondson)

Loaded on May 1, 1996 published in Punch and Jurists May 06, 1996
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Scheme or Artifice to Defraud.

Here the Court held that reasonable jurors could not find that a person of ordinary prudence, about to purchase a home, would rely on the developers own representations about the value of the home, and thus vacated the mail fraud convictions.

This is a remarkable decision both in its outcome ...

 

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