United States Fourth Circuit

Admission that defendant intentionally burned mobile home that was also used for a church is insufficient to establish interstate commerce element in a guilty plea for arson under 18 USC S 844(i).

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/05/2001
• Published 11/05/2001

Judges

• Before MOTZ, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Terry F. Rose, Smithfield, NC, for Defendant-Appellant.   Banumathi Rangarajan, Assistant United States Attorney, Raleigh, NC, for Plaintiff-Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Janice McKenzie Cole, United States Attorney, Anne M. Hayes, Assistant United States Attorney, Raleigh, NC, for Defendant-Appellee.