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Raza v. United States

Certiorari Denied

Petition for certiorari denied on June 25, 2018.

Docket No.17-1314
Op. Below4th Cir.

Issue

Whether, in a federal fraud prosecution involving a private victim, materiality turns on the misrepresentation"s ability to influence the actual decisionmaker to which it was addressed, as three circuits have held, or instead on its ability to influence a hypothetical "reasonable person," as six circuits have held.

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