143011P.pdf   06/06/2016  United States  v.  Darryl House
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-3011
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Cape Girardeau   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Wollman, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. The district court did not 
   err in denying defendant's Batson challenge as the government provided a 
   race-neutral ground for its strike; the Hobbs Act is a constitutional 
   exercise of Congress's Commerce Clause power; the government's evidence 
   established the elements of a Hobbs Act offense, including that the 
   robbery depleted the assets of a business engaged in interstate commerce; 
   no error in imposing a mandatory life sentence under the provisions of 18 
   U.S.C. Sec. 3559(c) as a Hobbs Act robbery is a serious violent felony for 
   purposes of the statute; defendant's Illinois aggravated robbery 
   conviction qualified as a prior serious violent felony for purposes of the 
   statute; this appeal could not be used to collaterally attack a Kentucky 
   conviction the government used as a second requisite predicate offense; 
   recidivism is not an element of an offense that must be submitted to a 
   jury; challenges to various evidentiary rulings rejected.