Legal Opinion
United States v. Charles Winfred Carpenter, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 7, 1980No. 79-5209PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal concerns an attempt to extort $38,000 from a federally insured bank by means of kidnapping the son of two of the bank’s officers. For this crime, Charles Winfred Carpenter, Jr. was convicted of violating the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1951, and sentenced to five years in prison. He appeals the conviction, contending that (i) he did not commit a federal crime because the attempted extortion was directed solely at the parents of the kidnapped victim, not at the bank, (ii) the exclusive federal remedy for the crime was the Bank Robbery Act, 18 U.S.C.A. §…
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