United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's conviction for violating the federal murder-for-hire statute, 18 U.S.C. section 1958, is affirmed over defendant's challenge that the government failed to prove the jurisdictional element of section 1958(a).

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/18/2005
• Published 01/19/2005

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKETT, MARCUS and ALARCÓN , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William A. Norris, Edward P. Lazarus, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Leeza R. Cherniak, Law Office of Leeza R. Cherniak, Atlanta, GA, for Edward M. Kennedy, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• James K. Jenkins, Maloy & Jenkins, Atlanta, GA, Thomas A. Withers, Gillen, Dailey, Cromwell & Withers, LLC, Savannah, GA, for Defendant-Appellant., Amy Lee Copeland, Savannah, GA, Edmund A. Booth, Jr., Augusta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.