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Friday, June 10th, 2016

Second Circuit Updates – June 10, 2016

Not much to report today, just one summary order, which reminds us of the importance of due dates!   In United States v. Russow, 15-1768, the district court extended the defendant’s time to file an appeal.  When the defendant failed to file by that date and the government objected, the 2nd Circuit precluded an appeal. The court noted that in their ruling in United States v. Frias, 521 F.3d 229, (2d. Cir. 2008), if the government objects to a further extension of time to file an appeal after the first extension has been granted, Federal Rule of 8 Appellate Procedure 4(b) is inflexible and the appeal must be precluded.…

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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Joint Pain

United States v. Shellef, No. 06-1495-cr (2d Cir. November 8, 2007) (Pooler, Sack, Wesley, CJJ)

In this decision applying Fed.R.Cr.P 8, the court held that counts were improperly joined against two separate defendants, and that the misjoinders were not harmless. The decision also has an interesting discussion of some unusual wire fraud theories.

Defendants Shellef and Rubenstein were tried together on tax and wire fraud charges. At the same trial, Shellef alone was tried on tax evasion charges relating to some of his personal and business dealings. Both were convicted of all counts.

The tax and mail fraud charges arose from the defendants’ efforts to purchase and resell CFC-113, a highly regulated, ozone-depleting industrial solvent upon which, Congress, in an effort to phase out its use, imposed an excise tax. However, the tax does not apply to CFC-113 reclaimed as part of a recycling process, or CFC-113 that is sold …


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