Legal Opinion
United States v. Nascimento
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 2, 2007No. 06-1152, 06-1153, 06-1154PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.
The pivotal issue in this case concerns the application of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. § 1962, to a street gang *30engaged in violent, but noneconomic, criminal activity. That issue possesses constitutional implications weighty enough to have led one of our sister circuits to fashion a special, more rigorous, version of RICO’s statutory “affecting commerce” requirement for use in connection with defendants involved with enterprises that are engaged exclusively in noneconomic criminal activity. See Waucaush v. United States,…
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