Legal Opinion
Leroy A. Frazier v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 5, 1965No. 18514_1PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
• J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
•' Appellant was convicted of escaping from the custody of the Attorney General1 while serving a sentence for an earlier conviction of narcotics violations. His escape was from St. Elizabeths Hospital, to which, some five months earlier, he had been transferred from the District of Columbia Jail under 24 D.C. Code § 302 (1961).2 On appeal he contends that this escape was not from the “custody of the Attorney General” and, henee, not a violation of the Federal Escape Act.3
Under 24 D.C.Code § 425 (1961), all persons convicted of crime in the District of…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Ernest McDonald v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1962
- Thomas Hawkins v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1962
- Giles v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1946
- Forrest Silva Tucker v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1958
- Dallas O. Williams v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1962
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Lester D. Milhouse v. Edward H. Levi, United States Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1976
- United States v. Bruce Warren Hobson, United States of America v. Morton NewmanCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1975
- United States v. Clifford Bailey, United States of America v. Ronald Clifton Cooley, United States of America v. Ralph WalkerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1978
- Larry Cannon v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1981
- United States v. Alvin Odell CluckCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1976
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