United States v. Elvis Irizarry

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• holding that the prosecutor’s improper attempt associate the defendant with an organized crime boss was cured by the judge’s cautionary instruction
• holding that reversal was unwarranted despite the admission of the defendant’s prior criminal acts, since such admission did not seriously affect the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings (quotation and citation omitted)
• holding that when all of the criminal conduct charged against the defendant constituted a series of related acts in furtherance of a commonly charged RICO enterprise, there was no misjoinder of separate, unrelated offenses
• concluding same act or transaction requirement satisfied where indictment charged criminal acts either as predicates for racketeering or as acts undertaken in furtherance of commonly charged RICO enterprise
• finding that the prosecutor’s attempt to connect the defendant with a notorious organized crime boss was “as impertinent as it was improper and irrelevant”
• concluding same act or transaction requirement satisfied where indictment charged criminal acts either as predicates for racketeering or as acts undertaken in furtherance of commonly charged RICO enterprise

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).