Legal Opinion
United States v. John R. Torquato
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 5, 1979No. 78-2577PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GARTH, Circuit Judge.
John R. Torquato appeals from the judgment of sentence entered upon his conviction for conspiring with others to violate the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, and for substantive violations of that Act. He raises a number of legal issues on appeal, only one of which we think merits discussion. This one issue is whether Torquato made a sufficient threshold showing of selective prosecution to entitle him to an evidentiary hearing in which he could explore the factual predicate for his claim of unlawful discrimination on the part of the government in…
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