Legal Opinion
United States v. Pierre Dawson and Alphonso Ingram
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 28, 2005No. 04-2557, 04-2592PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendants were convicted by a jury of federal drug offenses and sentenced to 300 months in prison (Ingram) and 360 months (Dawson). Among the grounds for reversal that they press on us with misplaced zeal in more than 130 pages of briefs is that in every trial of a federal drug offender the prosecution must prove that the defendant’s offense had an actual impact on interstate or foreign commerce. Otherwise, they argue, the prosecution may exceed the regulatory power *392conferred on Congress by the commerce clause of the Constitution. The statutes under which the…
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