Legal Opinion
United States v. Dorian Williams
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 30, 2012No. 11-3625PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Dorian Williams appeals from his conviction and sentence for conveying false information about bombing a commercial aircraft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 35(b) and conveying a threat and false information in interstate commerce about the destruction of life and property by explosives under 18 U.S.C. § 844(e). Williams challenges the constitutionality of the statutes under which he was convicted, the district court’s 1 denial of certain requested jury instructions, the sufficiency of the evidence at trial, the duplicity of his punishments in violation of the Double Jeopardy…
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