Legal Opinion
United States v. Carlo Castro
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 8, 2013No. 11-3893PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
JORDAN, Circuit Judge.
Daniel Castro, a high-ranking official in the Philadelphia Police Department, was indicted in connection with three separate schemes to extort money from separate individuals by use of violence. He was convicted by a jury on one count of making a material false statement to federal agents in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, and acquitted on one count of conspiracy to commit extortion in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 894. The jury hung on the remaining eight counts.
To avoid a retrial, Castro pled guilty to a count of conspiracy to commit extortion in…
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