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The Santos Resolution ()
Santos, argued the first week of the Term in October, was by far the oldest outstanding decision until today. (After today, the only remaining case from those argued in 2007 is Boumediene...

U.S. v. Santos as a Teaching Tool
I'd be curious to hear what people think of the recent SCOTUS decision in U.S. v. Santos as a tool for teaching statutory interpretation in Criminal Law. I have been thinking of using it instead of U...

Opinion Recap: US v. Santos
Below, Amy discusses one of the decisions released on Monday.  At issue in No. 06-1005, United States v. Santos, was whether the term ?proceeds,? as used in the federal money-laundering statute, means ?receipts? (as the United States contended) or ?profits? (as the respondents argued)...

Supreme Court rules in money laundering, paralegal fees recovery cases
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] handed down three decisions Monday, including United States v. Santos [Duke Law backgrounder; JURIST report], where the Court held 7-2 that the term "proceeds" in a federal money laundering statute [text] means "profits" and not "receipts...

New Bedford Massachusetts Police Officer Edson Santos Under Investigation After Attacking And Choking His Girlfriend Outside Bar
NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS - A city police officer is being investigated for allegedly choking his girlfriend outside a downtown nightclub last month, the mayor and a police source said...

Conspiracy Theories
United States v. Santos, No. 06-0833-cr (2d Cir. September 2, 2008) (McLaughlin, Sack, Livingston, CJJ)In 2000, Santos was hired by a big Columbian drug dealer to kill two men who had stolen drug proceeds from him...