LEGAL THEORY Chapter 4 CASE BRIEF Name: Professor: 553 U.S. 137‚ 128 S.Ct. 1581 Facts: In September 2004‚ New Mexico police officers received a report that Larry Begay‚ the petitioner here‚ had threatened his sister and aunt with a rifle. The police arrested him. Begay subsequently conceded he was a felon and pleaded guilty to a federal charge of unlawful possession of a firearm in violation of § 922(g)(1). Begay’s presentence report said that he had been convicted a dozen
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ranking official in a country where such offerings are not prohibited by law. Subornation on the other hand generally involves giving large sums of money designed to tempt an official to commit an illegal act on behalf of the one offering the bribe. Extortion is if payments are extracted under force by someone in authority from a person seeking only what he or she is
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The Notorious La Cosa Nostra and Organized Crime Abstract When the term family business is named‚ you might think of a farming business‚ or maybe selling certain products‚ but the words prostitution‚ loan-sharking‚ narcotics‚ and racketeering are not the first things to come to mind. La Cosa Nostra is what family business was about during the 1920’s and early 1940’s. La Cosa Nostra‚ a criminal organization from Sicily‚ Italy‚ began terrorizing the U.S by
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QUIZ I – STUDY GUIDE IB-571 – Polychroniou • IMF (about)：International Monetary Fund • GATT/WTO (about): General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/ World Trade Organization • Culture (definition/character/origins/components) Definition: Culture can be defi ned as a society’s accepted basis for responding to external and internal events. Most traditional defi nitions of
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Gangs in Prison The Aryan Brotherhood The Aryan Brotherhood originates in the CDC (California Department of Corrections) and BOP (Federal Bureau of Prisons). The Aryan Brotherhood was founded in San Quentin‚ California in the 1960s. The founders were members of other gangs from the 1950s called‚ “Bluebirds”‚ “Diamond Tooth Gang”‚ and the “Nazi Gang”. Barry Mills and Tyler Davis are now the leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood. Their basic beliefs and mission is they believe in the betterment
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1‚ 1949‚ but his criminal life started in his teens‚ when he and his gang would steal headstones from the cemetery‚ sand them down and re-sell them. From there he moved on to conning people‚ to car thefts‚ to extortion‚ where people would pay to not have their cars stolen. He continued his life of crime by legitimating his stolen cars through counterfeit paperwork and selling them. At this point Pablo was becoming known as a young crime boss‚ and started using
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Law of Crimes I Q1. Explain the concept of crime and essential ingredients to constitute crime with the help of appropriate examples. A1. INTRODUC T ION Crime‚ we are told‚ is today a salient fact‚ an integral part of the risks we face in everyday life. In both scholarly and public opinion crime is associated with harm and violence; harm to individuals‚ destruction of property‚ and the denial of respect to people and institutions. It is clear that we face pressing problems of a practical
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The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act‚ typically called RICO Act or RICO‚ is a United States federal law. The RICO Act is categorized as Chapter 96 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code. This act was formed on October 15‚ 1970 and signed into law by President Richard Nixon. The purpose of the law was to control organized crimes in the United States. Under this law‚ which deals with federal crimes and criminal procedures‚ it also permits prosecution and civil penalties for organized crime
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Case: Coping with Corruption in Trading with China. Corporations across the globe deal in international business practices every day. When a company must to do business in countries with a high level of corruption‚ a company should have a plan that helps to maintain control over a key piece of intellectual property or some production process component that allows company to maintain power in the relationship. Most of these processes and practices are legal and ethical‚ following the laws and regulations
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The Tamils are an ethic group and lives in southern India and on Sri Lanka (mainly in the state of Tamil Nadu); it is an island of 21 million people odd the southern tip of India. According to a 2001 government census‚ most Tamils live in the eastern and the northern Sri Lanka‚ and they comprise approximately 10 percent of the island’s population. From their religion most of them are Hindu but Tamil language set them apart from the four fifths of Sri Lankans who are Sinhalese; the members of a largely
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