Legal Opinion
United States v. Oscar McInnis and Patricia Parada
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 10, 1979No. 78-3277PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
The United States contends that the Lindberg Act, the federal anti-kidnapping statute, as amended, 18 U.S.C. § 1201, forbids a conspiracy to lure a victim across an international boundary and then to kidnap him, and seeks to set aside a judgment dismissing an indictment charging those acts as a federal offense. It also appeals the dismissal of several counts of making false material declarations to a grand jury, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623(a), while the grand jury was investigating those events. We conclude that the conspiracy charged is not proscribed by…
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3Cited by46 opinions
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