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: Tenth Circuit Blog

By Shari Allison

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PublishedUS v. Smith, No. 08-8019, 6/18/09 - Convictions for tax evasion, submitting fictitious obligations and lying in bankruptcy petition affirmed. 1) Excluding the time between the filing of pretrial motions and a brief hearing on the motions during a status conference was proper, so no speedy trial violation; and 2) no abuse of discretion in asking witnesses questions submitted by jurors because they were merely clarifying and benign questions. UnpublishedUS v. Jackson, No. 08-3317, 6/17/09 - Conviction for possessing shanks by a prisoner was a crime of violence for career offender purposes.US v. Barwig, No. 08-3062, 6/17/09 - A divided panel of the 10th reverses as plain error imposition of 5-year stat max sentence for violating terms of supervised release on defendant originally convicted of making a false statement...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on June 29, 2009 (boomark / email).