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Title Viii - Gambling And Organized Crime, Richard Levy Jan 1971

Title Viii - Gambling And Organized Crime, Richard Levy

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

With these words, President Richard Nixon underscored the dangers presented by organized crime's use of gambling. The proceeds of such syndicated gambling activities are universally acknowledged to be the financial lifeblood of organized crime. With the capital initially obtained from illicit gambling, organized crime operatives are able to bribe government officials, make political contributions, engage in loan sharking operations, infiltrate and contaminate legitimate businesses, and hire the vast number of attorneys, accountants and other professionals necessary to the success of the operation. In an effort to launch a frontal attack on syndicated gambling throughout the United States, Congress enacted title …

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Gaming--Slot Machines As Gaming Devices Under West Virginia Statute, P. B. H. Dec 1955

Gaming--Slot Machines As Gaming Devices Under West Virginia Statute, P. B. H.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Constitutional Law - Criminal Procedure - Federal Immunity Statute Applicable To State Court, Raymond R. Trombadore S.Ed. Jun 1954

Constitutional Law - Criminal Procedure - Federal Immunity Statute Applicable To State Court, Raymond R. Trombadore S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

ln response to a summons, petitioner appeared to testify before a congressional committee investigating crime, and confessed to having run a gambling business in Maryland. This confession was used in the criminal court of Baltimore to convict petitioner of conspiring to violate the state's anti-lottery laws. The conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, which rejected petitioner's contention that use of the committee testimony was forbidden by a federal statute which provides that no testimony given by a witness in congressional inquiries "shall be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against him in any court." On …

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Constitutional Law-Search And Seizure As An Incident To Lawful Arrest, Zolman Cavitch May 1949

Constitutional Law-Search And Seizure As An Incident To Lawful Arrest, Zolman Cavitch

Michigan Law Review

Petitioners, suspected of carrying on an illegal lottery, had been under police observation for several months, during which time one of the petitioners maintained a room in a rooming house in the District of Columbia. On the day of the arrest, a police officer, without a warrant, but believing the unlawful lottery to be in operation, climbed through a window of the landlady's room, and admitted two other officers. They proceeded to the petitioner's room, where one of the officers looked through the transom. Seeing the petitioners working on an illegal lottery, the officers entered the room, arrested the petitioners …

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Attorney And Client--Striking Attorney From Roll Of Federal District Court, Richard J. Archer Nov 1947

Attorney And Client--Striking Attorney From Roll Of Federal District Court, Richard J. Archer

Michigan Law Review

For twelve years gambling had been carried on in a wide open manner in the district; more than three thousand hand books on race horses were operated in cafes, restaurants, and night clubs. Newspapers had published the names of those paying the federal taxes, and a poll of school children indicated that they were familiar with gambling devices in the community. Responsibility for law enforcement rested with the Commonwealth's Attorney, an elective official who had held the position for twenty years; an attempt to remove him from office by quo warranto proceedings, and an attempt to investigate the situation by …

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Evidence - Witnesses - Privilege Of Reporter Not To Testify Concerning Confidential Communications Jan 1936

Evidence - Witnesses - Privilege Of Reporter Not To Testify Concerning Confidential Communications

Michigan Law Review

Defendant, a newspaper reporter, refused to reveal to a grand jury which was investigating gambling and the lottery racket the names and addresses of persons and places mentioned in certain newspaper articles he had written on that subject, on the ground that the information was given to him confidentially and its source was therefore privileged. He was committed for contempt, and sued out a writ of habeas corpus. Held, writ dismissed. Mooney v. Sheriff, 269 N. Y. 291, 199 N. E. 415 (1936).

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