specified-unlawful-activity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6794 Isaac Cardona v. United States First Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process merger-problem money-laundering specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine I. Whether the promotional money laundering provision of Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1956 (a)(1)(A)(i), violates the due proce…
21-6775 Temne Adah Hardaway v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure financial-transactions money-laundering sixth-amendment specified-unlawful-activity venue venue-jurisdiction In United States v. Cabrales, 524 U.S. 1, 2 (1998) this Court and the Eighth Circuit held in a substantive money laundering charge that venue is impro…
18-7143 Derian Eidson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that "in fact involvel]…
18-6772 Donovan Grant v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP appeals appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process financial-transaction guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error plain-error-doctrine specified-unlawful-activity trial-court The First Circuit affirmed a conviction for money laundering based on a financial transaction that was a different financial transaction from the one …