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· 11/24/1995

United States v. William E. \Jack\ Street

Citations

  • 66 F.3d 969

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that use of defendant's earlier state conviction to enhance federal sentence for assaulting park rangers did not violate double jeopardy clause
  • holding that an indictment was not duplicative where it 10 1 alleged that defendant “knowingly did forcefully assault, resist, oppose, impede, 2 intimidate and interfere” with federal agents, because “Section 111(a)(1) defines a 3 single crime, not multiple offenses”
  • “[N]or is the touchstone whether the officer is performing a function covered by his job description.”
  • \Duplicity is the joining in a single count of two or more distinct and separate offenses.\
  • “The ‘scope of what the agent is employed to do’ is not defined by ‘whether the officer is abiding by laws and regulations in effect at the time of the incident____’”
  • “The principal vice of a duplicitous indictment is that the jury may convict a defendant without unanimous agreement on the defendant’s guilt with respect to a particular offense.”

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Judges: Wollman, Friedman, Loken

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