U.S. v. Pelullo, No. 93-1261 (3rd Cir.) (14 F.3d 881) (January 24, 1994) (Judge Robert E. Cowen)
In this case, the Third Circuit held that a defendant's prior conviction following a jury trial for wire fraud could not give rise to collateral estoppel to prevent relitigation of the same crime as a predicate offense in his later RICO trial. The Court was highly critical of what it …
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