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DALTON v. U.S.

No. 88-1681.

862 F.2d 1307 (1988)

Melissa J. DALTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 7, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stacy R. Obenhaus, Dallas, Tex., for appellant.

James Crowe, Asst. U.S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., for appellee.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, and ARNOLD and FAGG, Circuit Judges.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Melissa Dalton brings this petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to vacate her 1984 conviction for mail and wire fraud. The jury that convicted Dalton had been instructed that a scheme to deprive the citizens of St. Louis of their intangible right to the honest and loyal services of a public official could constitute "a scheme or artifice to defraud" within the meaning of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and...

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