Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Heerdink v. Amoco Oil Co.

111 S. Ct. 2826

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1991-06-17
Topic
general

convictions upheld where two guns were kept in trunk with cocaine stash in unused cár in locked garage | guns kept in trunk of car with cocaine stash in locked garage were “used” | a defendant's actions involving bribery and money laundering for organized crime established open-ended continuity | a defendant’s actions involving bribery and money laundering for organized crime established open-ended continuity | evidence of drug-trafficking arrests admissible to show existence of RICO enterprise | attorney convicted of conspiring to obstruct justice, where he helped organized crime clients create false stories to give to authorities, conceal evidence, and influence testimony of prospective witnesses, to obstruct pending law enforcement and grand juiy investigations | declining to hold RICO statute unconstitutionally vague

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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.