Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert M. Baker
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 17, 1996No. 95-1525PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
St. Louis police officer Robert M. Baker appeals his conviction and thirty-month sentence for violating the Travel Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1952(a). Baker asserts that his extortion of a St. Louis motorist was not linked to interstate commerce, that the district court improperly admitted evidence Baker had been extorting motorists for more than ten years, and that the court misapplied the Sentencing Guidelines. We remand for further consideration of one sentencing issue but otherwise affirm.
Early in the morning of February 16,1994, Baker and his partner, Alderick Reed, driving an…
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