WOODWARD v. U.S.

No. 17-2114.

905 F.3d 40 (2018)

Francis H. WOODWARD, Petitioner, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

September 26, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce A. Singal , with whom Lauren E. Dwyer and Barrett & Singal, Boston, MA, were on brief, for appellant.

Sonja M. Ralston , Attorney, Criminal Division, Appellate Section, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom John P. Cronan , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Matthew S. Miner , Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Jenny C. Ellickson , Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.

Before Torruella, Selya, and Barron, Circuit Judges.


In 1996, a jury convicted former Massachusetts state representative Francis H. Woodward of, among other crimes, honest-services mail and wire fraud. He appeals to us from the district court's denial of his most recent petition for a writ of error coram nobis. We conclude that the district court did not err in denying that...

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