MEEK

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Rumell, 642 F.2d 213 (7th Cir. 1981)
  …e that (1) the vehicles were stolen, (2) they were transported in interstate commerce, (3) the appellants knew the vehicles were stolen [*216] and (4) the transportation was intentional. United States v. Meek, 388 F. 2d 936 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 391 U.S. 951, 88 S.Ct. 1855, 20 L.Ed.2d 866 (1968). Rumell contends that the government failed to prove that the truck described in Count II had been in interstate commerce5 and that the appellants knew that the trucks were stolen. Darzinikas alleges improper ve…
• United States v. Williams, 739 F.2d 297 (7th Cir. 1984)
  …-established legal rule that possession by a defendant of a motor vehicle recently stolen creates a presumption or inference that the defendant knew that the vehicle was stolen. See United States v. Meek, 388 F. 2d 936, 938 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 391 U.S. 951, 88 S.Ct. 1855, 20 L.Ed.2d 866 (1968). Without this presumption, according to the trial court’s own assessment, the prosecution’s case “falls flat on its face.” May 17 Transcript at 13. Even with the presumption, the prosecution’s case was not ove…
• United States v. Spudic, 795 F.2d 1334 (7th Cir. 1986)
  …e one personal act of changing the VIN on each vehicle, points out that the elements of the two crimes are different, and necessarily the evidence required for each is different. In United States v. Meek, 388 F. 2d 936, 938 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 391 U.S. 951, 88 S.Ct. 1855, 20 L.Ed.2d 866 (1968), Judge Swygert writing for the court affirmed that the defendant was guilty both of transporting a stolen vehicle in interstate commerce, a car he had initially rented, and of concealing the same car when he cha…