A restraining order against a just-arrested defendant telling him to leave a bank account untouched was not hearsay and should have been allowed as evidence in a federal bank fraud trial, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled yesterday.
The circuit vacated a lower court decision excluding evidence of an asset restraining order against Courtney Dupree, a former college basketball star and Obama fundraiser and the former CEO and president of the holding company, GDC Acquisitions, who was convicted in 2011.
