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Fourth Circuit· 12/11/2013

United States v. Keith Simmons

Citations

  • 737 F.3d 319
  • 2013 WL 6487475
  • 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 24617

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  • “[W]e interpreted Santos narrowly to bind lower courts only in cases where illegal gambling constituted the predicate for the defendant’s money- laundering conviction.”
  • “But, because the merger problem provided the ‘driving force’ behind both the plurality’s and Justice Stevens’s opinions, we recognized that Santos compelled us to construe the money-laundering statute so as to avoid punishing a defendant twice for the same offense.”
  • “But, because the merger problem provided the ‘driving force’ behind both the plurality’s and Justice Stevens’s opinions, we recognized that Santos compelled us to construe the money- laundering statute so as to avoid punishing a defendant twice for the same offense.”

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Judges: Niemeyer, Motz, Gibney, Eastern, Virginia

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