United States v. Wali Ali

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prior offenses are part of the same scheme or plan only if the prior offenses were jointly planned or, at a minimum, the commission of one offense necessarily required the commission of another
• “We must keep in mind the purpose of the ‘related’ test. It is to identify the less dangerous criminal. A criminal is not less dangerous because his crime is part of a spree.”
• “We must keep in mind the purpose of the ‘related’ test. It is to identify the less dangerous criminal. A criminal is not less dangerous because his crime is part of a spree.”
• “‘[S]cheme’ and ‘plan’ are words of intention, implying that the [crimes] have been jointly planned, or at least that it have been evident that the commission of one would entail the commission of the other as well.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).