U.S. v. WEATHERS

No. 97-5903.

169 F.3d 336 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jeffrey Eugene WEATHERS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 26, 1999.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied April 9, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott T. Wendelsdorf (argued and briefed), Jamie L. Haworth, Asst. F.P. Defender, Federal Public Defender's Office, Louisville, Kentucky, for Defendant-Appellant.

Terry M. Cushing (briefed), Monica Wheatley (argued and briefed), Asst. U.S. Attorneys, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Louisville, Kentucky, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: DAUGHTREY and MOORE, Circuit Judges; COHN, District Judge.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied April 9, 1999.

DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, we are asked to decide whether the use of a cellular telephone in a murder-for-hire scheme satisfies the interstate commerce jurisdictional requirement of the federal murder-for-hire statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1958, where both parties to the conversation were within the state of Kentucky at the time of the telephone calls, but use of the cellular phone...

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