E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
Two attorneys appeal their convictions for violating the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, by conspiring to extort and by extorting money from a law firm and its clients in exchange for not prosecuting drunken drivers in city court in Monroe, Louisiana. The appeal presents us with the question whether there was sufficient nexus between the alleged extortionate crimes and interstate commerce to support this federal prosecution. The defendants...
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