United States v. Karmue, No. 15-1990 (1st Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of conspiracy to commit arson, wire fraud, mail fraud, and theft of government funds. The convictions stemmed from Defendant’s participation in a scheme to burn down a tenement house that he owned so that he could recover the insurance proceeds. The First Circuit affirmed, holding (1) any error on the part of the district court in conducting a portion of a Daubert hearing in Defendant’s absence was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt; (2) the district court did not prejudicially err in permitting Count I of the superseding indictment to be altered post-trial; and (3) there was no abuse of discretion in the district court’s refusal to substitute counsel at sentencing.
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