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· 8/21/2015

United States v. Paz-Alvarez

Citations

  • 799 F.3d 12
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 14717
  • 2015 WL 4978733

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that a statute cannot criminalize conduct “in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application’” (citations omitted)
  • rejecting appellant’s Alleyne argument based upon a review of the jury instructions in their totality
  • “There are many ways to show that a defendant intended to join and advance a conspiracy, even where the defendant never actually handled the drugs.”
  • arguments from motions incorporated by reference waived

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Selya, Souter, Lipez

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