U.S. v. SANTAGATA

No. 90-1439.

924 F.2d 391 (1991)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Donald SANTAGATA, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 30, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene V. Mollicone, Cranston, R.I., with whom William A. Dimitri, Jr. and Dimitri & Dimitri, Providence, R.I., were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Margaret E. Curran, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Lincoln C. Almond, U.S. Atty., Providence, R.I., was on brief, for appellee.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and ATKINS, Senior District Judge.


ATKINS, Senior District Judge.

Following a jury trial in the district court, defendant Donald Santagata was convicted on fourteen counts of wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. The appellant appeals from his conviction on two related grounds: (1) that the lower court improperly admitted evidence of "other acts" under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b); and (2) that the district court failed to give a cautionary instruction to the jury regarding the proper...

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