United States Fifth Circuit

Under the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 USC 13, which allows for federal prosecution of state law crimes on federal property, sentencing a defendant convicted of child endangerment to a sentence three times greater than state conviction is not a "like" or similar punishment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/28/2001
• Published 11/28/2001

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, SMITH and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Angela S. Raba (argued), San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., M. Carolyn Fuentes (argued), San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.