Auto Accesorios De Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Junta De Planificacion De Pr

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Congress' use of term \extortion\ in 18 U.S.C. S 1951 incorporated common law meaning of the term into the statute
• explaining that a defendant’s contradictory, vague, and evasive answers contribute to a finding of guilt
• holding that the government was required to prove a quid pro quo existed—meaning an official accepted something of value in exchange for agreeing to take or taking official acts to qualify as Hobbs Act extortion
• recognizing possibility of charging extortion and bribery based on same conduct in some contexts and of such charges being “mutually exclusive” in other contexts
• recognizing a distinction between Hobbs Act robbery and extortion by separating out the offense of extortion \under color of official right\ for elemental analysis
• holding that a violation under the “color of official right” portion of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 would require a showing “that a public official has obtained a payment to which he was not entitled, knowing that the payment was made in return for official acts”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).