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Supreme Court· 2/20/1961

Callanan v. United States

Citations

  • 364 U.S. 587
  • 81 S. Ct. 321
  • 5 L. Ed. 2d 312
  • 1961 U.S. LEXIS 2087

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that defendant convicted of obstructing commerce by extortion and conspiracy to commit the same had committed “two offenses” such that it was within trial court’s discretion to fix separate sentences
  • holding that conspiracies and substantive offenses committed in the course of those conspiracies are separate offenses and may be charged separately
  • holding that defendant convicted of obstructing commerce by extortion and conspiracy to commit the same had committed “two offenses” such that it was within trial court’s discretion to fix separate sentences
  • holding that defendant convicted of obstructing commerce by extortion and conspiracy to commit the same had committed “two offenses” such that it was within trial court’s discretion to fix separate sentences
  • observing that “collective criminal agreement — partnership in crime — presents a greater potential threat to the public than individual delicts”
  • holding that Hobbs Act conspiracy is separate crime from substantive offenses but declining to consider whether the “repetitive” nature of “some of the substantive sections” indicates they are “variants in phrasing of the same del-ict”

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Judges: Frankfurter, Stewart, Black, Douglas

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