People v. Moorhead

How courts have described this case

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• holding that conspiracies can serve as predicate acts for a RICO conspiracy
• surrounding circumstances establish that accounts of past murders were made in furtherance of conspiracy
• surrounding circumstances establish that accounts of past murders were made in furtherance of conspiracy
• entering judgment for defendant where all but one predicate act was insufficient, but ordering new trial for defendant where it was possible that two predicate acts were sufficient
• RICO conspiracy requires that defendant conspire to commit predicate offenses that constitute pattern of racketeering activity
• “A RICO conspiracy under 1962(d) based on separate conspiracies as predicate offenses is not merely a ‘conspiracy to conspire’ as alleged by appellants, but is an overall conspiracy to violate a substantive provision of RICO.”

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