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U.S. v. FARAH

No. 13-6147.

766 F.3d 599 (2014)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Abdullahi FARAH, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 11, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: James Mackler , Bone McAllester Norton PLLC, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Van S. Vincent , United States Attorney's Office, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: James Mackler , Bone McAllester Norton PLLC, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Van S. Vincent , United States Attorney's Office, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee.

DRAIN, D.J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which COLE, C.J., joined, and MOORE, J., joined in part. MOORE, J. (pp. 616-20), delivered a separate opinion dissenting from Part III.A. of the majority's opinion.

OPINION

GERSHWIN A. DRAIN, District Judge.

I.

Defendant Abdullahi Farah was convicted after a two-day jury trial of violating 18 U.S.C. § 401(3), for willfully disobeying an order requiring his testimony by deposition for use in a separate criminal prosecution and for violating 18 U.S.C. § 1591(d), which prohibits the obstruction, or the attempt to obstruct the enforcement of § 1591(a), a child sex trafficking statute. Farah's conviction...

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