United States v. Willie Cruso Free

JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge:

The facts in the case on appeal reveal a grim picture of life in a federal prison. Under the “watchful” eye of the prison administration, the defendant, a prisoner in a federal correctional institution, threatened fellow prisoners with death and injury unless they engaged in homosexual relations with him. The evidence showed that at least two prisoners succumbed to the defendant. This case, however, involves the defendant’s killing of a prisoner who refused to succumb. The defendant was convicted of second degree murder pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1111. On this…