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United States v. Howard

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided August 29, 2008No. 07-1712PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Derrick Howard was convicted by a jury of obstruction of justice, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1503, threatening to murder an Assistant United States Attorney, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 115(a)(1)(B), and three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to commit murder-for-hire, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1958. These charges arose from an elaborate scheme that Howard orchestrated from prison to have three persons murdered, to frame an innocent man for those murders, and to deliver that man to the government as a means of reducing Howard’s ten-year sentence on a…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. United States v. Leigh Raymond TamuraCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
  2. United States v. MarekCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2001
  3. United States v. Randall Cope and Terry Wayne CopeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2003
  4. United States v. PevetoCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1989
  5. United States v. Robert M. BakerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996

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3Cited by8 opinions

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  2. United States v. MandelCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2011
  3. United States v. ChahiaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2008
  4. State of West Virginia v. Donald DunnWest Virginia Supreme Court · 2016
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