Opinion

Griffith v. Board of Commissioners

  • 396 U.S. 826
  • 90 S. Ct. 69
  • 24 L. Ed. 2d 76
  • 1969 U.S. LEXIS 891
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Oct 13, 1969
Status
Published
Cited by
63 cases
Authority
More cited than 98.2%

holding that statutory crimes of mail fraud and fraud by wire are broad in their scope and may ordinarily be shown by proof of intentional devising of scheme to defraud and use of mails and wire communications in furtherance of scheme

How later courts described this case

  • holding that statutory crimes of mail fraud and fraud by wire are broad in their scope and may ordinarily be shown by proof of intentional devising of scheme to defraud and use of mails and wire communications in furtherance of scheme
  • court did *998 not abuse its discretion in awarding partial costs to prevailing party who was only partially successful
  • "defendants who retain counsel also have a right of constitutional dimensions to representation by counsel of their own choice"
  • “CAROLITE” does not infringe “K-LITE”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

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