United States v. Shaver, No. 10-2790 (3d Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseIn 2005 a house that had operated as an unlicensed bar was robbed by three men with guns. The men took cell phones and cash from patrons and were apprehended in the area shortly after the robbery, carrying some of the stolen items, and were identified by witnesses. Three defendants, Shavers, White, and Lewis were convicted of robbery affecting interstate commerce, conspiracy to commit robbery affecting interstate commerce, witness tampering, and using and carrying firearms during and in relation to a crime of violence. The Third Circuit vacated Shavers’s and White’s witness tampering convictions and Shavers’s eight-year term of supervised release. The court affirmed the other convictions and Lewis’s sentence. The court upheld jurisdiction under the Hobbs Act stating that property crimes like robbery and extortion are, unlike possession of a gun in a school zone or gender-motivated violence, indisputably economic, and, in the aggregate, have a substantial impact on interstate commerce.
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