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- Title: United States V. Padgett
- Author : Fourth Circuit U.S. Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 01, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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In these consolidated appeals, Carlos Emanuel Kinard (No. 94-5800) and Jermaine Maurice Padgett (No. 94-5799) appeal their jury convictions for various crimes related to their participation in a RICO conspiracy and several underlying predicate acts, as well as various drug and firearm offenses. Kinard and Padgett raise several arguments on appeal. They claim the Government failed to establish an interstate commerce nexus and that the evidence was insufficient to sustain their convictions. Padgett also claims the trial court incorrectly admitted several prior consistent statements, refused to allow his request to argue potential punishments to the jury, provided the jury with an incorrect definition of reasonable doubt, sentenced him under the standards for first degree murder, and subjected him to double jeopardy by sentencing him to the RICO conspiracy count and the conspiracy's underlying predicate acts. Finding no error, we affirm the convictions of both Appellants.