U.S. v. ARCHER

Docket No. 10-4683-cr.

671 F.3d 149 (2011)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Thomas ARCHER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 20, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan I. Edelstein , Edelstein & Grossman, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant.

Soumya Dayananda , Assistant U.S. Attorney, of counsel, ( Peter A. Norling , Andrew E. Goldsmith , Assistant U.S. Attorneys, of counsel, on the brief), for Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, N.Y., for Appellee.

Before: NEWMAN, CALABRESI, and HALL, Circuit Judges.


CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

The Defendant-Appellant, Thomas Archer, requested specific jury instructions with respect to the government's burden of proof regarding his knowledge of the fraud for which he was indicted. The district court (Johnson, J.) denied these requests and instead gave a general instruction on acting "knowingly." Archer challenges those denials as well as the sufficiency of the evidence presented at trial. We find these challenges meritless...

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