Supreme Court· 5/2/2016

Ocasio v. United States

Citations

578 U.S. 282
136 S. Ct. 1423
194 L. Ed. 2d 520
2016 U.S. LEXIS 2932
84 U.S.L.W. 4245
26 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 116

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stating that the general federal conspiracy statute’s “use of the term ‘conspire’ incorporates long-recognized principles of conspiracy law”
applying lenity when a single statute “creates civil and criminal liability”
“[T]he fundamental characteristic of a conspiracy is a joint commitment to an ‘endeavor which, if completed, would satisfy all of the elements of [the underlying substantive] criminal offense.’”
\[T]he type of extortion for which petitioner was convicted-obtaining property from another with his consent and under color of official right-is the rough equivalent of what we would now describe as 'taking a bribe.' \

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Judges: Alito, Breyer, Thomas

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