United States v. Richardson, Billy

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that we normally do not resolve IAC claims on direct appeal unless the trial record conclusively answers the questions presented
• directing defendant to pursue habeas petition because court could not resolve ineffective assistance claim on existing record; no indication that defendant sought or court considered remand
• “Additional evidence of [the enterprise’s] organization and continuity comes from the robberies’ consistent pattern.”
• “In this case, the RICO and RICO conspiracy counts functioned as the “connective tissue,” as the district court put it, that allowed joinder of all fifteen incidents and all three defendants in a single trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).