U.S. v. Sun Myung Moon 718 F.2d 1210 (1983)
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United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S. v. Sun Myung Moon 718 F.2d 1210 (1983)
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Table of Contents
Before OAKES, CARDAMONE and WINTER, Circuit Judges.
BACKGROUND
I
DENIAL OF BENCH TRIAL
II
SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE
III
JURY INSTRUCTIONS
IV
MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES
V
KAMIYAMA CLAIMS
OAKES, Circuit Judge (dissenting)
See also
718 F.2d 1210, 52 A.F.T.R.2d 83-6026, 83-2 USTC P 9581, 14 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 133
United States Court of Appeals,
Second Circuit.
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,
v.
SUN MYUNG MOON and Takeru Kamiyama, Defendants-Appellants.
Nos. 755, 765, 766 and 1153, Dockets 82-1275, 82-1279, 82-1277, 82-1357 and 82-1387. Argued March 23, 1983.
Decided Sept. 13, 1983.
One defendant was convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Gerard L. Goettel, J., of conspiracy and filing false tax returns and other defendant of aiding and abetting filing of false returns, obstruction of justice and perjury, and they appealed. The Court of Appeals, Cardamone, Circuit Judge, held that: (1) Government's reason for opposing first defendant's request for bench trial was not to punish him for exercising his First Amendment rights; (2) denial of bench trial did not violate first defendant's right to fair trial; (3) there was sufficient evidence to support filing and aiding and abetting convictions; (4) there was sufficient evidence to support conspiracy conviction; (5) trial court was not required to charge jury on trust issue; (6) certain instructions did not violate First Amendment religious clauses; (7) district court did not abuse its discretion in holding that defendants failed to demonstrate necessary factual predicate for claim of selective prosecution; (8) district court correctly ruled that if defendant elected to testify, he would have to speak through certified, court-appointed interpreter; (9) requiring defendant to testify through court-appointed interpreter did not impermissibly restrict defendant's constitutional right to present full defense; (10) admission of certain irrelevant evidence was harmless; (11) district court did not abuse its discretion in allowing admission of evidence of church practices; (12) there was no reversible error in denial of motions relating to alleged improper influences on jury; (13) evidence was insufficient to support conviction for knowingly submitting false and misleading documents to grand jury with intent to corruptly impede its investigation; and (14) evidence was sufficient to support remaining convictions.
Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
Oakes, J., filed dissenting opinion.
See also, 93 F.R.D. 558; 532 F.Supp. 1360; 688 F.2d 817; 697 F.2d 301.
Laurence H. Tribe, Cambridge, Mass. (Jeanne Baker, David J. Fine, Baker & Fine, Cambridge, Mass., Charles A. Stillman, Stillman, Friedman & Shaw, P.C., New York City, Bernard S. Bailor, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for defendant-appellant Moon. Andrew M. Lawler, New York City (Maurice M. McDermott, Dennis E. Milton, Anne T. Vitale, Andrew M. Lawler, P.C., New York City, Barry A. Fisher, Robert C. Moest, David Grosz, Fisher & Moest, Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel), for defendant-appellant Kamiyama.
Jo Ann Harris, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (William M. Tendy, Acting U.S. Atty. S.D.N.Y., Gary G. Grindler, Gerard E. Lynch, Walter P. Loughlin, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York City, Martin Flumenbaum, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for appellee.
Samuel E. Ericson, Springfield, Va. (Edward Larson, Springfield, Va., of counsel), for the Center for Law and Religious Freedom, amicus curiae.
Steven R. Shapiro, New York City, for the American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.
Earl W. Trent, Jr., Valley Forge, Pa., for National Ministries, American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A., amicus curiae.
Before OAKES, CARDAMONE and WINTER, Circuit Judges.
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CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge
Reverend Sun Myung Moon and Takeru Kamiyama appeal from judgments of conviction entered on July 16, 1982 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York following a six-week jury trial before Judge Gerard L. Goettel. Moon was charged basically with filing false income tax returns and Kamiyama with obstructing the investigation of those returns.
Paying income taxes is not America's most popular national pastime. But, most accept the certainty of taxes as part of the price of modern life. Tax fraud prosecutions usually do not present the myriad of constitutional problems involved here. Yet in this case the defense raises troubling issues of religious persecution and abridgment of free speech that are interwoven with other grounds for objection to the judgments below. In reducing this huge record and the veritable avalanche of arguments presented to what we hope is comprehensible form, we have divided this opinion into five major sections-- Denial of Bench Trial, Sufficiency of the Evidence, Jury Instructions, Miscellaneous Issues, and Kamiyama's Claims. Most of the issues raised have been addressed. Those not discussed are minor points that we consider wholly without merit.
We commend the manner in which Judge Goettel presided in this especially lengthy trial. Such errors as inevitably crept in were skillfully unearthed by counsel. Of course, defendants are only entitled to a fair trial but not a perfect one.
Lutwak v. United States, 344 U.S. 604, 619, 73 S.Ct. 481, 490, 97 L.Ed. 593 (1953). Defendants did receive a fair trial and we affirm their convictions on all counts, except Kamiyama's conviction on Count Seven which is reversed.
BACKGROUND
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The main indictment upon which Reverend Moon and Mr. Kamiyama were tried charged them in Count One with conspiracy, 18 U.S.C. § 371, to file false federal income tax returns, 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1), to obstruct justice, 18 U.S.C. § 1503, and to make false statements to government agencies, 18 U.S.C. § 1001, and to a federal grand jury, 18 U.S.C. § 1623. Counts Two, Three and Four charged Moon with filing false tax returns for 1973, 1974 and 1975, in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1). Counts Five and Six charged Kamiyama with aiding and abetting the filing of the false 1974 and 1975 returns, 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2). The remaining counts (Seven through Thirteen) charged Kamiyama with the substantive offenses of obstruction of justice through the submission of false documents to the grand jury, 18 U.S.C. § 1503, submitting false documents to the Department of Justice, 18 U.S.C. § 1001, and five counts of perjury, 18 U.S.C. § 1623. A separate indictment charged Kamiyama with an additional count of perjury. At the conclusion of the trial on May 18, 1982 the jury returned guilty verdicts against