Legal Opinion
United States v. De Cavalcante
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 10, 1971No. Nos. 19310-19312PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
The three appellants here were convicted of a conspiracy1 to extort in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1952,2 and De Cavalcante was also convicted on two counts alleging substantive violations of § 1952. The events alleged to constitute the crimes occurred in the latter part of 1966. The defendants were indicted on May 22, 1968, and were tried in September, 1970. After an eight-day trial be.fore a jury, the defendants were found guilty. De Cavalcante received the maximum sentence of three consecutive terms of imprisonment of five years each; Vastóla received…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Stirone v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Costello v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Russell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Hurtado v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
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3Cited by56 opinions
- United States v. Joseph M. MargiottaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1982
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- United States v. Leonard A. PelulloCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1994
- United States v. SomersCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1974
- United States v. Stephen Hathaway, United States of America v. Howard BaptistaCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1976
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