Legal Opinion
United States v. Jeffrey Eugene Weathers
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 9, 1999No. 97-5903PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, we -are asked to decide whether the use of a cellular telephone in a murder-for-hire scheme satisfies the interstate commerce jurisdictional requirement of the federal murder-for-hire statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1958, where both parties to the conversation were within the state of Kentucky at the time of the telephone calls, but use of the cellular phone involved an interstate signal sent to communications equipment in both Kentucky and Indiana.
The district court held that this constituted “use of a facility in interstate commerce,” as defined by the statute,…
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