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213661P.pdf 05/10/2023 United States v. Emily Hari
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-3661
and No: 22-1065
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Melloy and Kobes, Circuit Judge]
Criminal case - Criminal law. 18 U.S.C. Sec. 247(a) is a legitimate
exercise of Congress's power to punish offenders, like defendant, who rely
on the channels and instrumentalities of commerce in committing crimes,
and the district court properly rejected defendant's Commerce Clause
challenge to Section 247; defendant's Section 247(a)(2) conviction in
Count II of the indictment was a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. Section
924(c)(3), and his conviction in Count 4 of the indictment for carrying or
using a destructive device during or in relation to a crime of violence is
affirmed; in deciding whether the government violated defendant's Sixth
Amendment rights when jail officers seized two pages of notes from
defendant's cell during a shake down, defendant failed to show that the
government knowingly intruded on the attorney-client privilege, that the
government used the information in any way or that he suffered either
prejudice or the substantial threat of prejudice.