By Daniel E. Wenner, Day Pitney LLP (December 5, 2016, 1:45 PM EST) -- There are basically two kinds of people in Boston: people who like the Red Sox and people who should move. As one ventures down the Eastern seaboard, Red Sox mania dissipates to some degree until one gets to southern Connecticut, where Yankees fans start to outnumber those of their AL East, arch-rival Red Sox. Rhode Island, which has no Major League Baseball team of its own, is basically part of Red Sox nation. So what happens when a defendant is tried for bank fraud in Rhode Island before a jury that learns that he's a Yankees fan? Does that unfairly tip the scales in the government's favor? That was one of the questions in the appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in United States v. Alcantara, 837 F.3d 102 (1st Cir. 2016)....