BUSACCA

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (11 total)

• Lugo v. State, 845 So. 2d 74 (Fla. 2003)
  …cannot be asserted merely by showing a fortuitous interruption of that activity such as by an arrest, indictment or guilty verdict.” Lucas, 600 So. 2d at 1095 (quoting United States v. Busacca, 936 F. 2d 232, 238 (6th Cir.1991), [*100] cert. denied, 502 U.S. 985, 112 S.Ct. 595, 116 L.Ed.2d 619 (1991)). Therefore, Lugo's arrest did not obviate the threat of continued criminal activity by the enterprise with which he was associated. We further stated in Lucas the possibility that the related fraudulent activ…
• Brown v. State, 652 So. 2d 877 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995)
  …appropriating six checks in 21/2 months from health and pension funds over which the defendant had control was sufficient to establish continuity where Busacca had the [*881] ability to control disbursement of monies from those funds), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 985, 112 S.Ct. 595, 116 L.Ed.2d 619 (1991); State v. Lucas, 600 So. 2d 1093 (Fla.1992) (holding that evidence of a series of related fraudulent activities which occurred over a six-month period can demonstrate “elosed-ended continuity”). The State’s an…
• United States v. Calderon, 127 F.3d 1314 (11th Cir. 1997)
  …should; but if the evidence is essential to obtain a conviction, it may come in. This may seem like a ‘heads I win; tails you lose’ proposition, but it is presently the law.” United States v. Pollock, 926 F. 2d 1044, 1048 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 985, 112 S.Ct. 593, 116 L.Ed.2d 617 (1991). Iglesias contends that the government did not need to introduce the evidence because it possessed sufficient evidence of his guilt, including his intent, through the testimony of previously convicted coconspir…