U.S. v. Handakas, No. 00-1751 (2nd Cir.) (286 F.3d 92) (March 22, 2002) (Judge Dennis G. Jacobs)
Here a divided panel vacated a mail fraud conviction on the grounds that the “honest services” provisions of the statute were unconstitutionally vague as applied and presaged a “breathtaking expansion” of the use of the mail fraud statutes.
Increasingly, Judge Jacobs is establishing himself as one of the pre-eminent judges ...
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