Legal Opinion
United States v. Richard Debs
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 6, 1992No. 91-1149PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Richard Debs, once the President of United Automobile Workers Local 1776, was indicted for violations of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951. Three counts of the indictment alleged that Debs solicited others to do wrongful violence to Robert Harlow to induce Harlow and others not to oppose Debs in the 1989 election for union president, “thereby attempting to deprive the membership ... of its right to nominate and vote ... for the office of president.” The fourth count charged Debs with using extortion to cause another union member to be shot.
Debs filed a…
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