U.S. v. GRAHAM

No. 12-4659, No. 12-4825.

824 F.3d 421 (2016)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Aaron GRAHAM, Defendant-Appellant. Electronic Frontier Foundation; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland; Center for Democracy & Technology; American Civil Liberties Union Foundation; Downsizedc.org; Downsize DC Foundation; Gun Owners Foundation; Gun Owners of America, Inc.; Institute on the Constitution; Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; United States Justice Foundation; Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund, Amici Supporting Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Eric Jordan, Defendant-Appellant. Electronic Frontier Foundation; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland; Center for Democracy & Technology; American Civil Liberties Union Foundation; Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund; Downsizedc.org; Downsize DC Foundation; Gun Owners Of America, Inc.; Gun Owners Foundation; Institute on the Constitution; Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; United States Justice Foundation, Amici Supporting Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: May 31, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Meghan Suzanne Skelton , Office of the Federal Public Defender, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellants. Rod J. Rosenstein , Office of the United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: James Wyda , Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant Aaron Graham; Ruth Vernet , Ruth J. Vernet, Esq., LLC, Rockville, Maryland, for Appellant Eric Jordan. Nathan Judish , Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Sujit Raman , Chief of Appeals, Greenbelt, Maryland, Benjamin M. Block , Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee. Nathan Freed Wessler , Catherine Crump , Ben Wizner , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York; David R. Rocah , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland; Kevin S. Bankston , Gregory T. Nojeim , Center for Democracy & Technology, Washington, D.C.; Thomas K. Maher , Vice-Chair, 4th Circuit Amicus Committee, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Durham, North Carolina; Hanni Fakhoury , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, for Amici American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland, Center for Democracy & Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Michael Connelly , Ramona, California, for Amicus United States Justice Foundation; Robert J. Olson , Herbert W. Titus , William J. Olson , Jeremiah L. Morgan , William J. Olson, P.C., Vienna, Virginia, for Amici DownsizeDC.org, Downsize DC Foundation, United States Justice Foundation, Gun Owners of America, Inc., Gun Owners Foundation, Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Institute on the Constitution. Bruce D. Brown , Gregg Leslie , Hannah Bloch-Wehba , Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Motz wrote the majority opinion, in which Chief Judge Traxler and Judges Wilkinson, Niemeyer, King, Gregory, Shedd, Duncan, Agee, Keenan, Diaz and Harris joined. Judge Wilkinson wrote a separate concurring opinion. Judge Wynn wrote a dissenting opinion in which Judges Floyd and Thacker joined.


ON REHEARING EN BANC

In United States v. Graham, 796 F.3d 332 (4th Cir. 2015), a panel of this court affirmed the convictions of Defendants Aaron Graham and Eric Jordan arising from their participation in a series of armed...

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