U.S. v. Mandel

Record contained sufficient evidence to support defendant's conviction on charge of use of interstate commerce in furtherance of murder for hire scheme where third-party recorded his conversations with defendant in which defendant participated in planning of murder of defendant's business partner. Ct. rejected defendant's claim that he was entrapped into using cell phone to discuss details of murder scheme since third-party on behalf of govt. merely provided defendant with opportunity to commit crime when he used cell phone to initiate conversations with defendant. Ct. also rejected defendant's claim that his intrastate use of car to plan scheme was insufficient basis to support instant charge where Ct. found that statute does not require that facility of interstate commerce mentioned in charge actually be used in interstate commerce.