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ADELSON v. DiPAOLA

No. 97-1536.

131 F.3d 259 (1997)

Leonard H. ADELSON, Petitioner, Appellant, v. James V. DIPAOLA, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 12, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kimberly Homan, with whom Robert L. Sheketoff, Sheketoff & Homan, Francis J. DiMento, and DiMento & Sullivan, Boston, MA, were on brief, for appellant.

William J. Meade, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with whom Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, Boston, MA, was on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge, and BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-appellant Leonard H. Adelson hatched a plan to film bouts between Russian and American pugilists and market the resultant videotapes to Russian television stations. The undercapitalized venture was doomed from the opening bell. In the aftermath of its collapse, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts successfully prosecuted the petitioner on charges of larceny by check. After a fruitless pursuit of appellate remedies in the state courts...

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