United States v. Mason Townsend, Luis E. Diaz, Orlando Nunez, Dorothy Taylor, Carlos Mejia, Joseph Angel Claudio, and Isabel Marquez

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1991-02-14

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FLAUM, Circuit Judge. More than 40 years ago, Justice Jackson observed that the development of the law of conspiracy — “that elastic, sprawling and pervasive offense” — illustrates perfectly the truth of Justice Cardozo’s maxim about *1388 “the tendency of a principle to expand itself to the limi…

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