· 4/30/1959
Edward Charles Wood v. Richard C. Hoy, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, United States Department of Justice
Citations
- 266 F.2d 825
- 1959 U.S. App. LEXIS 5021
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- observing that courts cannot interpret this language “as ‘crimes arising out of a single act of criminal misconduct,’” because “this is not what the statute says”
- statute “says ‘not arising out of a single scheme of criminal misconduct’; it does not say ‘not arising out of a single criminal act’”
- a single scheme existed because two robberies were planned by the participants at the same time, and were committed within three days of each other, by the same people, using the same means
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Judges: Barnes, Hamley, Hamlin
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