United States v. Nascimento

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• assuming that a protective sweep would not allow looking inside a cabinet \too small to accommodate a person\
• noting that gang shared weapons, information, and ‘‘acted on behalf of one another by attempting to assassinate wit- nesses to each other’s crimes’’
• finding that “dignity and the New England climate” created an exigency that allowed officers to enter another room to obtain clothes for partially clothed defendant
• observing, in discussing the existence of the enterprise, that \members used a shared cache of firearms that were regarded as property of the gang\
• rejecting argument that government is required to show \a heightened effect on commerce to sustain a Hobbs Act conviction when the victim ... [i]s not a business\
• applying a single analysis to the sufficiency of proof for these elements to a RICO and a VICAR offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).