United States v. Walter Richeson, Jr.

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• holding that the intrastate use of the telephone can sup- port a violation of the murder-for-hire statute
• addressing the defendant’s “argu[ment] that the government never established his intent to pay for the murders” and concluding that the “evidence plainly revealed his] intent to compensate his co-conspirators”
• finding the consideration element of Section 1958 established based on evidence that “[t]he payment offered took the form of money to buy the murder weapons, with the promise to allow the murderer to keep the weapon when he finished the job”
• “The federal murder-for-hire statute requires the government to prove that the accused intended for a murder to be committed” as consideration for something of pecuniary value, (emphasis added)
• discussing the federal murder for hire statute

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