United States v. Marc Griffith

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

While trespassing on the Fort Campbell Military Reservation, an area of exclusive federal jurisdiction, Griffith shot a fellow hunter. He was indicted for violating the Assimilative Crimes Act (ACA), based on his violation of a Tennessee law that forbids a person from “causing serious bodily injury ... recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.” Tenn.Code Ann. § 39-2-101 (Supp.1988). The indictment was dismissed on the ground that the federal assault statute, 18 U.S.C. § 113(c), 1 was sufficiently similar to the Tennessee…