U.S. v. Khan

Federal 7th Circuit Court
Criminal Court
Reasonable Doubt
Citation
Case Number: 
Nos. 13-2662 & 13-2681 Cons.
Decision Date: 
October 24, 2014
Federal District: 
E.D. Wisc.
Holding: 
Affirmed
Record contained sufficient evidence to support jury’s guilty verdict on charge that defendant violated Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act (CCTA) that prohibited defendant from receiving/possessing contraband cigarettes that failed to have required state tax stamps, where said conviction stemmed from multiple purchases of large quantities of cigarettes totaling over $600,000. While defendant claimed that he was authorized to possess said cigarettes under exemption for agents of licensed distributors in Illinois, defendant failed to present evidence indicating either that he obtained invoice for said purchases to satisfy accounting requirements under CCTA, or that he had purchased said cigarettes from approved cigarette distributor, so as to qualify for said exemption. Ct. further rejected defendant’s claim that CCTA was unconstitutional because it violated 10th Amendment and/or was otherwise impermissibly vague.