U.S. v. MORIN

Nos. 95-5242, 95-5300.

80 F.3d 124 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Andrew Scott MORIN, a/k/a Scott Morris, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Andrew Scott MORIN, a/k/a Scott Morris, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 5, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Lisa Bondareff Kemler, Moffitt, Zwerling & Kemler, P.C., Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant. Vincent L. Gambale, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: John Kenneth Zwerling, Moffitt, Zwerling & Kemler, P.C., Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant. Helen F. Fahey, United States Attorney, William Graham Otis, Senior Litigation Counsel, United States Attorney's Office, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.

Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, HAMILTON, Circuit Judge, and BLAKE, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.


Affirmed in part, vacated and remanded in part by published opinion. Chief Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge HAMILTON and Judge BLAKE joined.

OPINION

WILKINSON, Chief Judge:

Andrew Scott Morin was convicted of murder-for-hire, 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a), and sentenced to 21 months imprisonment. Morin contends that because the murder would have taken place outside the United States, it would have violated no federal or state law, a necessary...

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