Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
South Dakota v. Rosebud Sioux Tribe
111 S. Ct. 2009
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1991-05-13
- Topic
- general
declining to adopt Grady test in RICO context and limiting its application to “offenses arising from a single discrete event” | “a federal sentence does not begin to run until the defendant is delivered to the place where the sentence is to be served” | "we believe that the appellants' primary contention is that the relationship plus continuity test for a pattern of racketeering under RICO is unconstitutionally vague.... Thus H.J. Inc. is more pertinent than Fort Wayne Books to our discussion." | “we believe that the appellants’ primary contention is that the relationship plus continuity test for a pattern of racketeering under RICO is unconstitutionally vague.... Thus H.J. Inc. is more pertinent than Fort Wayne Books to our discussion.” | “The double jeopardy analysis in ... Grady ... cannot easily be transposed to the RICO context____ Instead, we consider the double jeopardy problem posed by the successive prosecutions [in a RICO case] to be more closely analogous to that in [Garrett ]____”
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- 67 opinions
C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied.