Court Opinion

ID: 9494580
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:40:45.10921+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:28.768060
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MOORE, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I write separately to emphasize that there are many ways that the government could have established the requisite interstate commerce nexus in this case, some of which are described in Judge Siler’s opinion. The trial occurred before the decision by a panel of this court in United States v. Wang, 222 F.3d 234 (6th Cir.2000), and the government was not able to foresee the distinctions drawn in that case between the robbery of private citizens connected with a business and the robbery of the business. Had the government known of the law of the circuit later set forth in Wang, it probably could easily have shown the connection with interstate commerce. We cannot speculate, however, and therefore I agree on the reversal of Turner’s and Larkin’s convictions.