141599P.pdf   07/02/2015  United States  v.  Brandy Thomas
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-1599
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Murphy, Circuit Judge, and Harpool, 
   District Judge] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court did not err in denying 
   defendant's request for an instruction on intent to harm in this wire 
   fraud case; no error in permitting the government to introduce evidence 
   that defendant was involved in a separate scheme to defraud mortgage 
   lenders as the evidence was relevant to defendant's intent and lack of 
   mistake and was similar in kind and not remote in time to the offense 
   charged; no error in permitting the government to introduce defendant's 
   unfiled tax return as her actual income during the time covered by the 
   return was integral to the mortgage fraud charges; claim of constructive 
   amendment, or variance,of the indictment rejected; no error in polling 
   jury members or giving an Allen charge after the jury sent a note 
   indicating it was deadlocked.