Opinion ID: 710265
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Heading: Sufficiency of the Evidence to Support Yahweh's Conviction.

Text: 64 Our review of the record convinces us that the evidence presented at trial was more than sufficient to support Yahweh's conviction for RICO conspiracy. The government proved that Yahweh agreed to the commission of two or more predicate acts. While he did not commit the acts personally, he ordered his followers to commit numerous acts of murder, secure in the knowledge that his orders would be carried out. The jury properly rejected his argument that the government merely showed his innocent association with the enterprise. 65 It is well settled that in order to establish a defendant's involvement in a RICO conspiracy, the government need only prove that a defendant, by his words or actions, objectively manifested an agreement to participate directly or indirectly in the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity, i.e., the commission of at least two racketeering acts. United States v. Fernandez, 797 F.2d 943, 950 (11th Cir.1986), cert. denied, 483 U.S. 1006, 107 S.Ct. 3230, 97 L.Ed.2d 736 (1987); 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1961(1)(A). The government met its burden. 66