United States v. Rebecca Ann Smith, United States of America v. Clifford Rickard Arthur

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated appeals, both arising in the District of Oregon, present the question whether a “split sentence” is lawful under the Youth Corrections Act [“YCA”], 18 U.S.C. §§ 5005 — 26, and, if so, whether the offender must be segregated from adults during confinement.

The appellant in No. 80-1380, Rebecca Ann Smith, was indicted in February 1980 *1237on one count of embezzling funds from the federally-insured bank where she worked, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 656. She entered a guilty plea, and was sentenced under the YCA, 18 U.S.C. § 5010(a). (Smith was twenty years…