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Ocasio V. United States: The Supreme Court’S Sudden Expansion Of Conspiracy Liability (And Why Bribe-Taking Foreign Officials Should Take Note), Michael F. Dearington
Ocasio V. United States: The Supreme Court’S Sudden Expansion Of Conspiracy Liability (And Why Bribe-Taking Foreign Officials Should Take Note), Michael F. Dearington
Washington and Lee Law Review Online
Last year, the United States Supreme Court decided a Hobbs Act conspiracy case that could significantly expand the bounds of the general federal conspiracy statute. In Ocasio v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1423 (2016), the Court held that, under “age-old principles of conspiracy law,” a police officer could conspire with shop owners to extort those very same shop owners in violation of the Hobbs Act. The corollary is that a shop owner can, in theory, conspire to extort himself. If a shop owner can conspire to extort himself as a matter of law, why can’t a bribe-taking foreign …
Joinder, Conspiracy, And Racketeering: Charging Issues Arising In The Prosecution Of Staged-Accident Insurance Schemes, Michael C. Kovac
Joinder, Conspiracy, And Racketeering: Charging Issues Arising In The Prosecution Of Staged-Accident Insurance Schemes, Michael C. Kovac
Nevada Law Journal
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Distorting Extortion: How Bribery And Extortion Became One And The Same Under The Hobbs Act, Sigourney Haylock
Distorting Extortion: How Bribery And Extortion Became One And The Same Under The Hobbs Act, Sigourney Haylock
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
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