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Supreme Court· 12/9/1946

Fiswick v. United States

Citations

  • 329 U.S. 211
  • 67 S. Ct. 224
  • 91 L. Ed. 196
  • 1946 U.S. LEXIS 1660

How courts have described this case

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

  • confrming that one whose conviction is vacated “stand[s] in the position of any [person] who has been accused of a crime but not yet shown to have committed it”
  • finding an act “adequate” as an overt act in furtherance of one conspiracy theory but not another
  • finding sufficient collateral consequences when the conviction rendered the petitioner liable to deportation and denial of naturalization, and ineligible to serve on a jury, vote, or hold office
  • conviction rendered petitioner liable to deportation and denial of naturalization, and ineligible to serve on a jury, vote, or hold office
  • \confession or admission by one co-conspirator after he has been apprehended is not in any sense a furtherance of the criminal enterprise\
  • “The statute of limitations, unless suspended, runs from the last overt act during the existence of the conspiracy.”

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Judges: Douglas

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Cites

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