Legal Opinion
United States v. Parkes
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 15, 2007No. Docket 05-1486-CRPublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:
Defendant-appellant Otis Parkes appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Kaplan, J.), convicting him on multiple counts arising out of his participation in a botched robbery targeting drugs and drug proceeds, during which the victim was shot and killed by one of Parkes’s two coconspirators.
Parkes argues (I) that the evidence adduced to prove a nexus with interstate commerce under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), was insufficient, and that in any event the district court abused its discretion by…
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