ROBINSON ET AL.

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Meester, 762 F.2d 867 (11th Cir. 1985)
  …t, appellants kidnapped individual with intent to hold him until either marijuana or money was forthcoming; court found evidence of kidnapping highly probative of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and of specific intent), cert. denied, 452 U.S. 916, 101 S.Ct. 3050, 69 L.Ed.2d 419 (1981); United States v. Johnson, 575 F. 2d 1347, 1366, 1367 (5th Cir.1978) (testimony of hitting, kicking and threats of death in attempt to collect money owed on a marijuana transaction related to substance of offen…
• United States v. Broadwell, 870 F.2d 594 (11th Cir. 1989)
  …conspiracy. 762 F. 2d at 878 n. 9. Similarly, the forcible detention of individuals in furtherance of the goals of a drug conspiracy is not unprecedented. For example, in United States v. Robinson, 635 F. 2d 363 (5th Cir. Unit B 1981), cert. denied, 452 U.S. 916, 101 S.Ct. 3050, 69 L.Ed.2d 419 (1981), a group of conspirators in a rapidly deteriorating marijuana ring kidnapped an individual in an attempt to locate some undelivered marijuana and retrieve their money. Id. at 365. The defendants contended that…
• Smith v. Meese, 821 F.2d 1484 (11th Cir. 1987)
  …priate cases enjoined bad faith prosecutions of specific individuals. See, e.g., Fitzgerald v. Peek, 636 F. 2d 943 (5th Cir. Jan. 1981) (enjoining prosecutions brought to harass individuals for exercising their First Amendment rights), cert. denied, 452 U.S. 916, 101 S.Ct. 3051, 69 L.Ed.2d 420 (1981); Wilson v. Thompson, 593 F. 2d 1375 (5th Cir.1979) (same). In this case, however, we are not asked to block or require the prosecution of any individual;2 instead, the plaintiffs have asked the federal court to…