The jury found Young guilty of mail fraud and false statement charges, but he was acquitted of interstate transport of stolen property.

However, in the 1958 case Lawn v. United States, the Supreme Court sustained a criminal conviction despite improper prosecutorial remarks because the prosecutor was replying to an attack on the truthfulness of witnesses.

[1] Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. opined that the Supreme Court should have remanded the case to the Tenth Circuit to clarify why the prosecutor's statements would amount to a plain error deserving of judicial review.

[1] Brennan noted that the prosecutor concluded his arguments by declaring "I don't think you're doing your job as jurors in finding facts as opposed to the law that this judge is going to instruct you," which he viewed as egregious misconduct uninvited by the defense's earlier statements.

[2] Associate Justice John Paul Stevens claimed that the Tenth Circuit's prior decision had already identified the prosecutorial misconduct as a plain error, making its order for a retrial satisfactory.