18 U.S.C. § 1792
Mutiny and riot prohibited
Whoever instigates, connives, willfully attempts to cause, assists, or conspires to cause any mutiny or riot, at any Federal penal, detention, or correctional facility, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years or fined under this title, or both.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 85
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1953–2026 · leading case: United States v. Gouveia, 467 U.S. 180 (1984).
United States v. Gouveia, 467 U.S. 180 (1984). “§ 1111 and of conveyance of a weapon in prison in violation of 18 U. S. C. § 1792 , and against Pierce on a charge of assault in violation of 18 U.”
United States v. David Ray Bryant, Michael Dennis Riker, Edward Stillman, Waylon Dwight Perry, Irvin Campbell, Leslie Ledon Smith, 563 F.2d 1227 (5th Cir. 1977). “The indictment charged that they did instigate, connive, wilfully attempt to cause, assist, or conspire to cause, a mutiny or riot at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee, Florida, contrary to Title 18 U.S.C. § 1792 . 1 At the close of the evidence the court ruled…”
United States v. Clayton A. Fountain & Hugh Thomas Colomb, 642 F.2d 1083 (7th Cir. 1981). “Count II charged Fountain with having violated 18 U.S.C. § 1792 by conveying a knife within the penitentiary.”
United States v. Jesse Lee Evans, 542 F.2d 805 (10th Cir. 1976). “The appellants were all charged under 18 U.S.C. § 1792 , and 18 U.S.C. § 2 with causing a riot at the penitentiary.”
United States v. Richard Wayne Hedges, 458 F.2d 188 (10th Cir. 1972). “This is an appeal from a conviction by a jury in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas of violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1792 , which prohibits the conveyance of dangerous instru-mentalities into or within federal penal institutions, and 18 U.”
United States v. Phillip Charles Green(97-6383) Santos Negron (97-6384) Larry Wade Walters, Jr. (97-6385), 202 F.3d 869 (6th Cir. 2000). “Green and Negron appeal their convictions as participants in the riot and maintain they are not guilty of causing or assisting a riot under 18 U.S.C. § 1792 . These cases arise from an inmate disturbance which erupted at the Federal Correctional Institution in Memphis,…”
United States v. Willie Cruso Free, 841 F.2d 321 (9th Cir. 1988). “§ 1111 ), conveyance of a weapon within a federal penal institution (in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1792 ), and assault on a federal officer (in violation of 18 U.”
United States v. Steven A. Medina & Ronald Crowder, 755 F.2d 1269 (7th Cir. 1985). “Finally, Crowder and Medina argue that the evidence produced by the government was insufficient to sustain the jury's verdicts on the charges of conveying weapons within the institution in violation of 18 U.”
United States v. Robert Castillo, Jr., 615 F.2d 878 (9th Cir. 1980). “§ 1112 , and of one count of conveyance of a dangerous instrumentality within a federal correctional institution in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1792 . We affirm the judgment of conviction.”
United States v. Hill, 526 F.2d 1019 (10th Cir. 1975). “§ 111 1 and one count of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1792 . 2 Only a very brief factual statement is required.”
United States v. David Valasquez Acosta, 495 F.2d 60 (10th Cir. 1974). “David Velasquez Acosta was charged with unlawfully conveying from place to place within the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, a thing designed to kill, injure or disable an employee, officer, agent or inmate thereof, to wit: a homemade knife, in violation of 18…”
United States v. Mayes, 158 F.3d 1215 (11th Cir. 1998). “Count One of the indictment charged all of the appellants with willfully instigating, conspiring and assisting to cause a riot, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1792 . Count Two of the indictment charged Bryant, Byrd, Calhoun, Fultz, Harris, Mayes, Nelson, and Nururdin with…”
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