FEDERAL LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSES CHECKLIST

FEDERAL LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSES CHECKLIST
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18 USC 1951 - HOBBS ACT--EXTORTION OR ATTEMPTED EXTORTION BY FORCE

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OFFENSES NOT INCLUDED:

1. Violation of section 302 of the Taft-Hartley Act. (29 USC 186.) (Bianchi v United States, 219 F2d 182 (8th Cir. 1955) [failure of trial court to submit to jury requested instruction that defendants could be convicted of violating 29 USC 186 was not error since nature of Taft-Hartley offense is bribery while offense under 18 USC 1951 was extortion and trial court was of opinion that record would not support conviction of bribery, case was not prosecuted on that theory, and record did not support such charge].)

2. Aiding and abetting. (United States v. Freeman, 6 F.3d 586, 601 (9th Cir. 1993) [the Ninth Circuit has specifically applied this principle to Hobbs Act violations under 18 U.S.C. §1951]; United States v. Nelson, 137 F.3d 1094 (9th Cir. 1998).)