Legal Opinion
United States v. Michael Wood Jones, Frank J. Deluna, Raymond Arnona and Robert Lee Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 1, 1983No. 82-3475PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Chief Judge:
Under 18 U.S.C. § 1955, 1 a person convicted of operating an illegal gambling business may be imprisoned for up to five years and fined $20,000. This statute makes a gambling business “illegal” only if it “involves five or more persons who conduct, finance, manage, supervise, direct, or own all or part of such business....” § 1955(b)(l)(ii). This appeal poses a recurring question: How significant must a person’s activities be with respect to a gambling business for him to be included in the federal “jurisdictional five”?
A total of eight defendants were tried in the district…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Sanabria v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- United States v. Maxie Eldon Milton, Eugene L. Fowler, and Andrew Areaux, DefendantsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
- United States v. Thomas Anthony Avarello, Jerry Henry Wood, Carmel Cosmo Bowers, James Eugene Avery and Bobby Joe ChapmanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
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3Cited by22 opinions
- State v. JohnstonOhio Supreme Court · 1988
- Howard Mattheson v. John T. King, Secretary of the Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1985
- United States v. Paul O'DellCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1986
- United States of America, (90-1096 91-1503), (91-1505) v. Robert Hawkins, (90-1096 91-1503), (91-1505)Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1992
- Markham Duff-Smith v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional DivisionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1992
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