United States First Circuit

Conviction and sentence for using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not err in declining to issue an entrapment instruction as defendant failed to produce the requisite evidence of government inducement; 2) there sufficient evidence to support a conviction on use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire based on defendant's conditional intent to murder his daughter; and 3) the court did not commit sentencing error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/17/2009
• Published 04/17/2009

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Melvin Norris with whom Richard J. Farrell, Jr. was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sandra S. Bower, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, and Mark T. Quinlivan, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.