Opinion ID: 77132
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Heading: Challenged Evidence at Trial

Text: 14 In detailing the operation of Wyman and Lee's financial scheme, the trial court admitted several pieces of evidence that are now one basis for these appeals. First, the district court allowed the government to introduce into evidence a letter written by Citizens' counsel to Lee, in which Lee was informed by the bank that she had to stop writing checks on a closed account. The letter told Lee that to continue to do so would be check fraud. Second, the district court allowed the government to introduce an e-mail written by a Capital City Bank employee referring to Wyman as a con artist. The letter and e-mail writers never testified at trial. The district court also allowed the attorney handling First South's foreclosure action to testify during his redirect examination by the government that he believed Wyman and Lee had committed illegal acts. 15 Finally, the parties dispute the importance of testimony provided by Bert Moore, the attorney handling the Destin property deal. Moore testified that he only remembered receiving one offset check from Wyman as consideration for the purchase of an option on the property. Moore further recalled that check as being for $111,000. Wyman, however, provided testimony which indicated that he wrote two checks on that property. Further, Wyman composed a letter to Capital City Bank in which he urged that bank to honor two checks, for $111,000 and $449,000, written to Bert Moore.