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"The effect of our Court's rulings is that every local robbery of a business in the United States is a federal crime."

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"The effect of our Court's rulings is that every local robbery of a business in the United States is a federal crime." In a concurring opinion issued today, Senior Sixth Circuit Judge Richard F. Suhrheinrich calls on the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether the Sixth Circuit, "[b]y continuing to allow a de minimis standard for individual violations of the Hobbs Act, [is] essentially nullifying the 'substantial effect' test of Lopez and Morrison."

Today's Sixth Circuit ruling upholds a defendant's federal criminal conviction for interfering with commerce by robbery in violation of the Hobbs Act by using a gun to steal $538 from a Cleveland-area Little Caesar's restaurant.

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).

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