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U.S. v. COATES

No. 90-5814.

949 F.2d 104 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard Paul COATES, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 30, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Edward Ansell, Don Edward Ansell & Associates, Upper Marlboro, Md., argued (Donna L. Seeley, on brief), for defendant-appellant.

Ethan L. Bauman, Asst. U.S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., argued (Breckinridge L. Willcox, U.S. Atty., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to determine whether the government can prosecute a person for arranging a murder-for-hire through the use of interstate commerce facilities, where the only basis for federal jurisdiction derives from actions the government admits were undertaken by its agents solely to manufacture jurisdiction. We hold that on the facts of this case, such actions cannot provide...

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