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Supreme Court· 11/9/1942

Braverman v. United States

Citations

  • 317 U.S. 49
  • 63 S. Ct. 99
  • 87 L. Ed. 23
  • 1942 U.S. LEXIS 1198
  • 1942 C.B. 319
  • 29 A.F.T.R. (P-H) 1195

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that one agreement cannot be taken to be several agreements and, therefore, several conspiracies because the agreement envisages the violation of several statutes rather than one
  • recognizing that when a defendant makes a single agreement to commit a crime, “only the single penalty [for the conspiracy] can be imposed”
  • holding that the allegation of a single count of a conspiracy to commit several crimes is not duplicitous
  • holding that it is the “agreement which constitutes the conspiracy ... one agreement cannot be taken to be several agreements and hence several conspiracies because it envisages the violation of several statutes rather than one.”
  • holding that it is the “agreement which constitutes the conspiracy ... one agreement cannot be taken to be several agreements and hence several conspiracies because it envisages the violation of several statutes rather than one”
  • holding that it is the “agreement which constitutes the conspiracy . . . one agreement cannot be taken to be several agreements and hence several conspiracies because it envisages the violation of several statutes rather than one”

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Judges: Stone

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