High Court Will Not Take Up Attorney’s Appeal Of Mail, Wire Fraud Convictions

Mealey's (December 15, 2020, 1:36 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 14 declined review of an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that the mandate rule and the law of the case doctrine barred it from revisiting a federal district court’s rejection of an attorney’s motion for a new trial on charges that he orchestrated a mail and wire fraud scheme while working as corporate counsel for a medical company (Mitchell J. Stein v. United States, No. 20-326, U.S. Sup.)....