Legal Opinion
United States v. Matthew Lyons
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 9, 1995No. 93-3202PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
Matthew Lyons was indicted for hiring an undercover police officer to murder a man he believed to be his wife’s lover. In exchange for the government’s agreement to dismiss two local-law counts and to refrain from opposing a reduction in his sentence for acceptance of responsibility, Lyons pleaded guilty to one count of violating the federal murder-for-hire statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1958 (Supp. 1992). The transcript of the proceeding in which Lyons entered his plea quotes the trial judge on the subject of the…
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