Court Opinion

ID: 9450373
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:43:54.897848+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:16.457499
License: Public Domain

On Petitions for Rehearing.
PER CURIAM:
Defendants’ petitions for rehearing by the panel are denied.
In view of our colleague’s dissent from this disposition we of the majority are required to state that we would not wish to leave doors open so that federal agents, by suggesting a course of post-crime conduct after the criminal’s activity, could create a federal crime out of activity that would otherwise only be a state crime. The language of our opinion does not permit this; we specify that the interstate route be chosen by the carrier “in the reasonable exercise of its commercial judgment.” And, moreover, here there is no possibility that the chosen route could have been tampered with by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or by anyone else, for the uncontradicted testimony was that the carrier always routed its cars from Buffalo to Long Island by way of Weehawken, New Jersey.