Opinion ID: 158518
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Text: 1 Bill Hanzlicek was convicted, following a jury trial, of one count of conspiracy in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, two counts of mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341, and one count of attempting to pass a falsely made obligation of the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 472. Hanzlicek's convictions arose out of a conspiracy on the part of himself and others to avoid their debts through the use of fraudulent checks. Hanzlicek raises the following five alleged errors in asserting that his convictions should be reversed on appeal: (1) an impermissible variance existed between the indictment, which alleged a single conspiracy, and the government's proof at trial, which supposedly established the existence of multiple conspiracies; (2) the district court erred in tendering a deliberate ignorance instruction to the jury; (3) the district court erred in allowing a government agent to give hearsay testimony regarding $1.8 million in losses supposedly sustained from similar/related fraudulent checks; (4) the government violated its duties under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), in failing to produce evidence of any losses resulting from the Schweitzer checks; and (5) the evidence was not sufficient to support his conviction for passing a counterfeit obligation in violation of § 472. This court exercises jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and affirms.