Heerdink v. Amoco Oil Co.
Heerdink v. Amoco Oil Co., 501 U.S. 1217 (1991)
Opinion of the Court
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.
How later courts describe this case
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(convictions upheld where two guns were kept in trunk with cocaine stash in unused cár in locked garage)
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(a defendant’s actions involving bribery and money laundering for organized crime established open-ended continuity)
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(evidence of drug-trafficking arrests admissible to show existence of RICO enterprise)
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(attorney convicted of conspiring to obstruct justice, where he helped organized crime clients create false stories to give to authorities, conceal evidence, and influence testimony of prospective witnesses, to obstruct pending law enforcement and grand juiy investigations)
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(declining to hold RICO statute unconstitutionally vague)
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