United States v. Donald Ray Burnette

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• recognizing that after amendments to the Federal Kidnapping Act in 1972, “knowledge of interstate transportation” is no longer “an element of the offense” and “interstate transportation now serves merely as a jurisdictional basis for federal prosecution of kidnapping”
• recognizing that after amendments to the Federal Kidnapping Act in 1972, “knowledge of interstate transportation” is no longer “an element of the offense” and “interstate transportation now serves merely as a jurisdictional basis for federal prosecution of kidnapping”
• \It is now firmly established that the imposition of separate consecutive sentences for multiple § 924(c) violations occurring during the same criminal episode are lawful.\

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