Hess v. Adams

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that joint-and-several liability applies to the forfeiture statute for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
• the fact that the jury acquitted some of the defendants is proof that the jury was able to treat each defendant individually
• fraud “case involving eleven defendants and two possible conspiracies [was] not so complex by definition that the jury [would] be unable to segregate the evidence properly”
• “[T]he legislative history of the forfeiture provision indicate that joint and several liability is not only consistent with the statutory scheme, but in some cases will be necessary to achieve the aims of the legislation.”
• variance non-prejudicial in case with two possible conspiracies involving 11 defendants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).