U.S. v. SHRUM

No. 10-3331.

655 F.3d 782 (2011)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rodney L. SHRUM, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: September 9, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talmage E. Newton, IV , St. Louis, MO, for appellant.

Andrew J. Lay , St. Louis, MO, for appellee.

Before LOKEN and MURPHY, Circuit Judges, and JARVEY, District Judge.


LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

A jury found Rodney L. Shrum guilty of willfully filing a false joint income tax return with his wife for calendar year 2007 in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 2. The district court1 sentenced him to twenty-four months in prison. Shrum appeals, arguing insufficient evidence of willful false reporting, admission of unfairly prejudicial evidence of gambling expenses, and a substantively unreasonable...

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