United States v. Ralph Michael Lepiscopo

The appellant Lepiscopo was tried before a jury in the District Court for the District of Kansas and found guilty of a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1792, conveying from place to place within a United States penitentiary a weapon designed to kill, injure or disable any officer, agent, employee or inmate. The appellant was confined in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas at the time of the offense. The weapon involved was a knife made from a 12-inch piece of %-inch steel sharpened to a point on one end and wrapped with string and tape for a grip at the opposite end, clearly a weapon…