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UNITED STATES v. BURNSED

No. 76-2023.

566 F.2d 882 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. William F. BURNSED, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 30, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lionel Lofton, Asst. U. S. Atty., Charleston, S. C. (Thomas P. Simpson, Acting U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellee.

Joseph S. Mendelsohn, Charleston, S. C. (A. Hoyt Rowell, III, Gibbs, Gaillard, Rowell & Tanenbaum, Charleston, S. C., on brief), for appellant.

Before WINTER, BUTZNER and HALL, Circuit Judges.

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

William F. Burnsed, a policeman assigned to the vice squad of the police department of the county of Charleston, South Carolina, appeals his conviction for participation in an enterprise affecting interstate commerce through a pattern of racketeering activity in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c).1 An essential element of racketeering activity, defined in § 1961(1)(A), is proof that Burnsed violated a state...

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