UNITED STATES v. WEBBE

No. 83-1231.

755 F.2d 1387 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sorkis J. WEBBE, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey A. Anderson, Sp. Atty., Las Vegas Strike Force, Dept. of Justice, Louis M. Fischer, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Albert J. Krieger, Miami, Fla., for defendant-appellant.

Before MERRILL, ALARCON and NELSON, Circuit Judges.


NELSON, Circuit Judge:

Sorkis J. Webbe appeals his jury conviction on two counts of making and filing a false income tax return in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1). Webbe, along with several others, had earlier been acquitted of conspiracy to defraud a union pension fund (United States v. Linton, CR-80-24-ECR). Webbe argues that the government was barred by collateral estoppel from trying him on the tax charges, because of his earlier acquittal on the...

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