United States v. Joseph L. Medeiros, Jr.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that the defendant “specifically intended to cause the kind of fire that recklessly would endanger others”
• stating that the government need only show a de minimis connection to interstate commerce in order to satisfy this element
• finding that the ___ ___ defendant \specifically intended to cause the kind of fire that recklessly would endanger others\
• stating that the government need only show a de minimis connection to interstate commerce in order to satisfy this element
• relying on common sense in finding under earlier arson guidelines that defendant conspired “to cause the kind of fire that recklessly would endanger others.”
• focusing on the character of a fictitious building in determining whether it was sufficiently connected to interstate commerce

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).