RANSOM

v.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BOARD OF PAROLE ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co., 430 U.S. 564 (U.S. 1977)
  …bstance rather than the form of the proceedings below. In ruling on a motion for acquittal the District Judge must pass on the sufficiency, not on the weight, of the Government’s case, United States v. Isaacs, 516 F. 2d 409, 410 (CA5), cert. denied, 423 U. S. 936 (1975); United States v. Wooten, 503 F. 2d 65, 66 (CA4 1974). “[T]he applicable standard is whether [the District Judge as a trier of fact] [*583] could, not whether he would, find the accused guilty on the Government’s evidence.” United States v. C…
• United States v. Evans, 572 F.2d 455 (5th Cir. 1978)
  …by an act of one or more of the conspirators to effect the object of the conspiracy.” United States v. Falcone, 311 U.S. 205, 210, 61 S.Ct. 204, 207, 85 L.Ed. 128 (1940). See also United States v. Isaacs, 516 F. 2d 409, 410 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 936, 96 S.Ct. 295, 46 L.Ed.2d 269 (1975). Since secrecy and concealment are the hallmarks of a conspiracy, the element of agreement is seldom susceptible of direct proof. Thus, the objective and observable acts of the conspirators are relevant and comp…
• United States v. Conroy, 589 F.2d 1258 (5th Cir. 1979)
  …ffense against the United States attended by an overt act of one of them in furtherance of the agreement”). See also United States v. Barrera, 5 Cir. 1977, 547 F. 2d 1250, 1256; United States v. Isaacs, 5 Cir. 1975, 516 F. 2d 409, 410, cert. denied, 423 U.S. 936, 96 S.Ct. 295, 46 L.Ed.2d 269. The requirement that Walker know the destination of the cargo to be convicted of conspiracy to import marijuana into the United States in no way contradicts the holding of the Supreme Court in United States v. Feola,…