United States Fifth Circuit

A guard employed by a private entity operating a detention center under contract with the Immigration & Naturalization Service is a "public official" for purposes of the federal bribery statute, 18 USC 201(b)(2)

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2001
• Published 01/25/2001

Judges

• RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKSDALE and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges, and VELA, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James L. Powers (argued), James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Attys., Katherine L. Haden, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Roland E. Dahlin II, Fed. Pub. Def., Thomas S. Berg, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def., H. Michael Sokolow (argued), Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.