United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's conviction for stowing away on a vessel that entered U.S. jurisdiction is affirmed where: 1) intent to be transported to the U.S. was not an element of the 18 U.S.C. section 2199 offense; and 2) Congress intended to apply section 2199 extraterritorially, as indicated by the statute's language.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/24/2009
• Published 12/24/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before EDMONDSON, BIRCH and BLACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Elsie Mae Miller, Carlos Alfredo Williams, Frederick W. Tiemann, Fed. Pub. Defenders, Mobile, AL, for Defendant-Appellant., Richard H. Loftin, Steven E. Butler, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.