UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, APPELLEE,
v.
ERNEST MADISON, APPELLANT
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The court held that the mail fraud statute applies to the scheme and that the defendant's failure to raise an issue regarding identification procedures below precludes him from raising it on appeal.
Appellant was convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy for purchasing airline tickets with stolen credit cards and reselling them. He appealed, arguing …
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PER CURIAM:
Appellant Madison appeals from a judgment of conviction entered upon a jury verdict after a six-day trial in the Southern District of New York, Charles M. Metzner, Judge, finding him guilty on three counts of mail fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1342 (1970), and on one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 (1970). Finding no error, we affirm.
Appellant’s first claim on appeal is that the execution of a scheme whereby appellant would purchase airline tickets with lost or stolen credit cards and then resell them made insufficient use of the mails to constitute a violation of the federal mail fraud statute. Two recent decisions by this court have made it clear, however, that the mail fraud statute covers appellant’s conduct. United States v. Chason, 451 F. 2d 301, 303 (2d Cir. 1971), cert. denied, 405 U.S. 1016, 92 S.Ct. 1291, 31 L.Ed.2d 479 (1972); United States v. Kellerman, 431 F. 2d 319, 322 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 400 U.S. 957, 91 S.Ct. 356, 27 L.Ed.2d 266 (1970).
Appellant’s second claim is that the government' used an impermissibly suggestive photographic identification technique. Our independent examination of the record in the instant case shows, however, that appellant did not claim in the district court that the identification procedure was unduly suggestive; he made no objection to the admission of the photographs, nor did he move to strike the identification testimony. Moreover, notwithstanding that the alleged error involves a criminal defendant’s constitutional rights, we do not view it as sufficiently prejudicial to amount to plain error undermining the fundamental fairness of the trial. See Fed.R.Crim.P. 52(b); United States v. Indiviglio, 352 F. 2d 276, 280 (2d Cir. 1965) (en banc), cert. denied, 383 U.S. 907, 86 S.Ct. 887, 15 L.Ed.2d 663 (1966).
Even without the identification testimony, the evidence was more than sufficient to support the jury’s verdict. See United States v. Indiviglio, supra at 280; 3 C. Wright, Federal Practice and Procedure 374 (1969). One Dennis Dweck, named in the indictment as a co-conspirator bit not as a defendant, testified at trial that Madison was a key figure in a scheme whereby tickets for New York to Tel Aviv, Israel, flights, after being purchased with a stolen Eastern Airlines credit card, were sold to travelers at substantial discounts. In addition, Madison, when arrested while attempting to purchase tickets with a lost airline credit card, had in his possession 13 credit cards in different names.
Accordingly, there being no plain error, appellant’s failure to raise this issue below precludes him from raising it on appeal.
Affirmed.
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- Fowler et ux. v. United States, 383 U.S. 907 (U.S. 1966)
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- United States v. Kellerman, 431 F.2d 319 (2d Cir. 1970)
- United States v. Chason, 451 F.2d 301 (2d Cir. 1971)