United States v. David Lane, United States of America v. Bruce Pierce

How courts have described this case

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• upholding Section 245 under Commerce Clause, as applied to religiously motivated killing of talk show host engaged in private employment
• “When Congress enacts a statute under its commerce power, it is not constitutionally obligated to require proof beyond a reasonable doubt that each individual act in the class of activities regulated had an effect on interstate commerce.”
• “As a general rule, we presume that juries follow [limiting] instructions.”
• “If all the evidence in a joint trial of defendants was admitted against each codefendant, no such prejudice could result from the joint trial because the evidence would be precisely as it would at each defendant’s separate trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).