U.S. v. Campbell

Federal 7th Circuit Court
Criminal Court
Reasonable Doubt
Citation
Case Number: 
No. 12-3724
Decision Date: 
October 21, 2014
Federal District: 
N.D. Ill., E. Div.
Holding: 
Affirmed
Record contained sufficient evidence to support jury’s guilty verdict on charges of harboring illegal aliens in scheme to use said aliens in prostitution ring, where: (1) term “harboring” required showing that defendant provided shelter to illegal aliens in place where authorities were unlikely to find them; and (2) record established requisite harboring activities where defendant had confiscated all of said aliens’ identifying documents, forced them to live and commit prostitution under assumed name in controlled environment and prohibited them from communicating with anyone outside his control. Ct. rejected defendant’s claim that he took actions that heightened risk that aliens would have been detected by immigration authorities. Ct. also rejected defendant’s claim that record did not support interstate element of his Hobbs Act convictions, where defendant used Internet and long-distance telephone calls to extort money and maintain control over said illegal aliens.