United States v. Richard Paul Coates, Jr.

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• dismissing indictment where the interstate element was contrived by the government for the sole purpose of cre- ating federal jurisdiction
• dismissing indictment where the interstate element was contrived by the government for the sole purpose of cre- ating federal jurisdiction
• dismissing indictment where the interstate element was contrived by the government for the sole purpose of cre- ating federal jurisdiction
• In finding manufactured jurisdiction, “[w]e rely entirely on the fact that the only reason the sole jurisdictional link occurred here was that it was contrived by the government for that reason alone.”

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