FELIX-MONTAS

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Mills, 138 F.3d 928 (11th Cir. 1998)
  …rcia, 13 F-3d 1464, 1473 (11th Cir.1994). We reverse. A mailing is of course one element of mail fraud. See United States v. Brown, 40 F. 3d 1218, 1221 (11th Cir.1994), cert. denied, 514 U.S. 1092, 115 S.Ct. 1815, 131 L.Ed.2d 738, and cert. denied, 514 U.S. 1121, 115 S.Ct. 1985, 131 L.Ed.2d 872 (1995). The mailing may be perfectly innocent as long as it is “incidental to an essential part of the scheme” to defraud or a “step in the plot.” Schmuck v. United States, 489 U.S. 705, 714, 109 S.Ct. 1443, 1449, 10…
• United States v. Cabrera, 172 F.3d 1287 (11th Cir. 1999)
  …(11th Cir.1996). A sentencing court must make factual findings sufficient to support the government’s claim of the amount of fraud loss attributed to a defendant in a PSI. See United States v. Butler, 41 F. 3d 1435, 1442 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 514 U.S. 1121, 115 S.Ct. 1987, 131 L.Ed.2d 874 (1995). The district court found explicitly that the amount of loss attributed to Cabrera was correct because he admitted that he possessed the equipment that caused the losses. Because we hold that mere possession…
• Blaik v. United States, 117 F.3d 1288 (11th Cir. 1997)
  …tance of counsel in this direct appeal. 'An ineffective assistance of counsel claim is properly raised in a collateral attack on the conviction under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 ....' United States v. Butler, 41 F. 3d 1435, 1437 n. 1 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 514 U.S. 1121, 115 S.Ct. 1987, 131 L.Ed.2d 874 (1995).’ ” (emphasis added)). . We need not determine the retroactive application of Hughey to decide this case because restitution restricted to the offense of conviction was the law in this circuit under Barnette w…