United States Fourth Circuit

Evidence that a defendant in a conspiracy to harbor an illegal alien allowed a co-conspirator to physically abuse the alien, is sufficient to support a conviction of harboring and causing serious bodily injury and jeopardizing a person's life, under 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(B)(iii).

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/02/2001
• Decided 01/10/2002
• Published 01/10/2002

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges, and FRANK J. MAGILL, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Paul F. Kemp, Law Offices Of Paul F. Kemp, P.A., Rockville, Maryland, for Appellant.  Mythili Raman, Assistant United States Attorney, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Steven M. Dettelbach, Assistant United States Attorney, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellee.