18 U.S.C. § 2381
Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 88
cases (32 in the last 5 years), 1948–2026 · leading case: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004).
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004). “…Other provisions of Title 18 criminalize various acts of warmaking and adherence to the enemy. See, e.g., § 32 (destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities), § 2332a (use of *561 weapons of mass destruction), § 2332b (acts of terrorism transcending national…”
Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 U.S. 815 (1988). “§ 2113 (bank robbery-related murder or kidnaping); 18 U. S. C. § 2381 (treason); 49 U. S. C.”
Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972). “No longer is capital punishment possible, I suspect, for, among other crimes, treason, 18 U. S. C. § 2381 ; or assassination of the President, the Vice President, or those who stand elected to those positions, 18 U.”
Philip Agee v. Edmund S. Muskie, Sec'y of State, 629 F.2d 80 (D.C. Cir. 1980). “) (2) The Treason Statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2381 . The treason statute makes it an offense to “adhere[] to [the] enemies [of the United States], giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere .”
Bertell Ollman v. Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, 750 F.2d 970 (D.C. Cir. 1984). “Existing doctrine provides ample protection against the entire list of horribles supposedly confronting the defenseless modern publicist: —The need to give special scope to political rhetoric is already met by recognition that hyperbole is an expected form of expression in that…”
United States v. Burson Augustin, 661 F.3d 1105 (11th Cir. 2011). “1986) (stating that treason “can only be committed by someone owing allegiance to the United States”); see also 18 U.S.C. § 2381 . We conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion to the extent that it granted the government’s motion to strike surplusage from the…”
Burnett v. Al Baraka Inv. & Dev. Corp., 274 F. Supp. 2d 86 (D.D.C. 2003). “18 U.S.C. § 2381 (1). AHIF does not assert — -none of these four defendants asserts — that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were not acts of international terrorism.”
United States v. Jonathan Jay Pollard, 959 F.2d 1011 (D.C. Cir. 1992). “Whereas treason carries the death penalty, 18 U.S.C. § 2381 , and involves aiding the nation’s enemies, U.”
United States v. Louis Jones, 132 F.3d 232 (5th Cir. 1998). “§ 794 ; treason, 18 U.S.C. § 2381 ; or intentionally murdering or causing the death of a person during the commission of certain crimes, see, e.”
Chandler v. United States, 171 F.2d 921 (1st Cir. 1948). “) and is now found in 18 U.S.C.A. § 2381 . In view of the striking similarity between the constitutional definition of treason, and the almost contemporaneously enacted statutory definition, the same reasons which lead to the conclusion that the constitutional provision…”
Miller v. Johnson, 541 F. Supp. 1165 (D.D.C. 1982). “The Amended Complaint alleges that the Secretary of State is guilty of various federal crimes, including treason as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 2381 , because he allegedly violated certain provisions of the Civil Rights Act, to wit, 42 U.”
United States v. Polizzi, 549 F. Supp. 2d 308 (E.D.N.Y 2008). “§ 2266 18 U.S.C. § 2381 Treason 5 years 18 U.S.C.”
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