Juan Carlos Guadron-Rodriguez v. United States
1. Do federal joinder laws permit the expansive joinder of two unrelated cases with no factual commonality apart from one defendant's involvement in both instances, where the facts of one of the crimes of so extreme and abhorrent as to inherently cause "spillover" prejudice to defendants only charged with the lesser crime?
2. Does a cellular phone constitute an "interstate facility" to the extent that the mere intrastate use of a cell phone automatically converts any crime identified in § 1952(a) into a federal offense?
Whether federal joinder laws permit the expansive joinder of two unrelated cases with no factual commonality apart from one defendant's involvement in both instances