U.S. v. TROY

No. 09-2121.

618 F.3d 27 (2010)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Roxanne TROY, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 26, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Thompson , with whom Thompson & Thompson, P.C. was on brief, for appellant.

Mark T. Quinlivan , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Carmen M. Ortiz , United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, SELYA and GAJARSA, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant Roxanne Troy raises claims of evidentiary insufficiency, instructional error, and inadequacy of the charging document, all of which require us to explore the parameters of the interstate commerce element of the federal arson statute, 18 U.S.C. § 844(i). The appellant caps her asseverational array with a claim of sentencing error. This final claim depends on the notion that section 844(i)'s mandatory minimum term of imprisonment...

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