U.S. v. WATERS

No. 18-11333.

937 F.3d 1344 (2019)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Alphonso I. WATERS, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 10, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernita Malloy , Christopher Conrad Bly , John Andrew Horn , Jane Elizabeth McBath , Diane Claire Schulman , Lawrence R. Sommerfeld , U.S. Attorney Service — Northern District of Georgia, U.S. Attorney's Office, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Gary Bunch , Gary Bunch PC, Carrollton, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, JULIE CARNES, and CLEVENGER, Circuit Judges.


In this wire fraud case, we are once again confronted with the question of when a lie is just a lie and when it is a federal crime. "It is conceded that there is a class of lies, voluntary, aimless, yet weak and wicked lies," Green's Adm'r v. Bryant, 2 Ga. 66, 68 (1847), that our law does not forbid...

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