A bottle of Florida orange juice sitting in the trunk of a car doesn't make the pipe-bombing of a Pennsylvania car a federal crime, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. In United States v. McGuire, a unanimous three-judge panel reversed the conviction in a federal arson case, holding that prosecutors must show more than a "de minimis" effect on interstate commerce to satisfy a jurisdictional requirement.
June 03, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The pipe-bombing of a Pennsylvania car isn’t a federal crime simply because there was a single bottle of orange juice from Florida in the trunk, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
In United States v. McGuire, a unanimous three-judge panel reversed the conviction in a federal arson case, holding that prosecutors must show more than a “de minimis” effect on interstate commerce to satisfy the law’s jurisdictional requirement.
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