Dwight York: 135-year sentence after eleven federal convictions
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Appellate history
2005-10-27
The court affirmed York's convictions and 1,620-month sentence in full.
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Core record
Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
founder and leader of the United Nation of Nuwaubian Moors, god-like or father figure to followers
Organization
United Nation of Nuwaubian Moors
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The cited record identifies religious authority, highly restricted communal life, family and gender separation, punishment or expulsion, and recruitment of children by older followers as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is founder and leader of the United Nation of Nuwaubian Moors and god-like or father figure to followers.
- Other spiritual authority or belief
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2004-04-22 · jury verdict and sentence
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia. A jury convicted York on eleven of thirteen counts, including racketeering, Mann Act and structuring offenses. The district court imposed consecutive terms totaling 1,620 months, or 135 years.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- religious authority
- highly restricted communal life
- family and gender separation
- punishment or expulsion
- recruitment of children by older followers
Cited record
Sources
- appellate court appellate opinion United States v. York, No. 04-12354, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Oct. 27, 2005).
The official appellate opinion records York's leadership of the United Nation of Nuwaubian Moors, the organization's restricted communal structure, followers' treatment of him as a god-like or father figure, the eleven-count verdict, the 1,620-month sentence and the court's affirmance of both convictions and sentence.
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- https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/200412354.pdf Corpus classification: appellate-court; evidentiary role: appellate-opinion. SHA-256 a416415f6e2a579df2439668adc55e58bacaa3d2dbd062e0aa7286c70ea2bdb2
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