U.S. v. Kottwitz, No. 08-13740 (11th Cir.) (614 F.3d 1241) (August 19, 2010) (Per Curiam)
Loaded on Oct. 11, 2010
published in Punch and Jurists
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This is an important tax fraud decision in which the Eleventh Circuit reversed a number convictions for filing materially false personal income tax returns on the grounds that the district court erred in refusing to give the defendants’ requested special instruction to the jury on their good faith reliance on ...
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