United States v. Applins

How courts have described this case

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• observing that, in Salinas , \the Court rejected defendant Salinas's argument that the government must prove that he had committed two predicate acts\
• noting that to prove a RICO conspiracy, the government must establish the existence of an agreement to violate RICO’s substantive provisions
• explaining that the defendant bears the burden of showing that he was prejudiced from an error in instruction
• stating that a jury must be unanimous only \as to the types of predicate racketeering acts\ that defendants agreed to commit, not as to \specific predicate acts\ (emphasis added)
• noting, in discussing whether the government had offered sufficient evidence of the existence of an association-in-fact, that \gang members congregated daily in their territory\
• explaining that challenges to jury instructions are reviewed de novo

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