Supreme Court upholds former police officer's conspiracy conviction
By Gwenyth Gamble on May 02, 2016 01:43 pm
The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] 5-3 Monday
in Ocasio v. United States [SCOTUSblog materials] that a defendant may
be convicted of conspiring to violate the Hobbs Act [text] based on
proof that he reached an agreement with the owner of the property in
question to obtain that property under color of official right. The case
raised the issue of whether the petitioner could have been convicted
under the Hobbes Act upon evidence that he had received... +read more
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