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UNITED STATES v. CONTENTI

No. 83-1746.

735 F.2d 628 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Dino CONTENTI, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Cicilline, Providence, R.I., for defendant, appellant.

William C. Bryson, Washington, D.C., with whom Lincoln C. Almond, U.S. Atty., and Edwin J. Gale, Sp. Atty., Dept. of Justice, Providence, R.I., were on brief, for appellee.

Before BOWNES and ALDRICH, Circuit Judges, and HUNTER, Senior District Judge.

ELMO B. HUNTER, Senior District Judge.

Appellant Dino Contenti was indicted on December 9, 1982, by a grand jury convened in April, 1982, in a multi-count indictment charging six counts of mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1341. The theory of the government's case at trial was that appellant, the owner of a financially failing wholesale food business, burned down the building in which his business was housed in order to collect the insurance proceeds. As a result...

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