Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Franklyn, Also Known as Robert Franklin, and Ralph Gonzalez, Also Known as Raphael Quinones
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 11, 1998No. Dockets 97-1392, 97-1427PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant Robert Franklyn, having been convicted by a jury of (inter alia) unlawfully possessing a machine gun in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(o)(l) and 18 U.S.C. § 2, challenges the judgment of conviction entered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Cote, J.) on the grounds (i) that the enactment of 18 U.S.C. § 922(o) exceeded the Commerce Clause power of Congress because the statute criminalizes the wholly intrastate possession of a machine gun; and (ii) that the prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenges violated Batson…
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