Legal Opinion
United States v. Yahweh
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided May 4, 1992No. 90-868-CRPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ROETTGER, Chief Judge.
Violent crime cases are the exception in federal courts. The instant case is arguably the most violent case ever tried in a federal court: the indictment charges the sixteen defendants on trial with 14 murders 1 by means such as beheading, stabbing, occasionally by pistol shots, plus severing of body parts such as ears to prove the worthiness of the killer. Plus, they are charged with arson of a slumbering neighborhood by molotov cocktails with the perpetrators under orders to wait outside the innocent victims’ homes wearing ski masks and brandishing machetes to…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Ex Parte BankheadSupreme Court of Alabama · 1991
- United States v. Stephen Roderick McRaeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- United States v. Julita De Parias, Jessie Ramirez, A/K/A Marzelo Romdom, A/K/A Norbey Duque Garcia and "Jessid"Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1986
- Jones v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1982
- United States v. Dwayne Thompson, United States of America v. Betty Ruth ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1984
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Yahweh v. United States Parole CommissionDistrict Court, S.D. Florida · 2001
- Curtis Leon Copeland v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)2013
- Yahweh v. United States Parole CommissionDistrict Court, S.D. Florida · 2006