18 U.S.C. § 4
Expenditures by the Secret Service for maintaining a permanent guard detail and for permanent facilities, equipment, and services to secure any non-Governmental property in addition to the one non-Governmental property designated by each protectee under subsection 3(a) or 3(b) may not exceed a cumulative total of $200,000 at each such additional non-Governmental property, unless expenditures in excess of that amount are specifically approved by resolutions adopted by the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate, respectively.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 559
cases (83 in the last 5 years), 1952–2026 · leading case: United States v. Caraballo-Rodriguez
United States v. Caraballo-Rodriguez (2007)
“Former Puerto Rico police officer Osvaldo Caraballo-Rodriguez (Caraballo) seeks on appeal to withdraw his plea of guilty to the crime of misprision of felony, 18 U.S.C. § 4 . The plea was entered as part of a plea bargain under which much more serious drug conspiracy charges…”
Augustin Valenzuela Gallardo v. Loretta E. Lynch (2016)
“LYNCH 9 of felony, 18 U.S.C. § 4 , does not constitute obstruction of justice and is not an aggravated felony under INA § 101(a)(43)(S).”
Navarro-Lopez v. Gonzales (2007)
“Ashcroft , the Eleventh Circuit determined that a conviction under the federal misprision of felony statute, 18 U.S.C. § 4 , qualified as a crime of moral turpitude.”
United States v. Karen Olson (2017)
“OLSON SUMMARY* Criminal Law The panel affirmed the defendant’s conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 4 (misprision of felony) for concealing and failing to notify authorities of her business partner’s submission of false statements to the United States Department of Agriculture Rural…”
United States v. Lavelle Phillips (2016)
“” 18 U.S.C. § 4 . Misprision of felony consists of “having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States,” and “conceal[ing] [it]” by not “mak[ing] known the same [as soon as possible] to some judge or other person in civil or military…”
United States v. Guillermo Novo Sampol, United States of America v. Alvin Ross Diaz, United States of America v. Ignacio (1980)
“§ 1623 , and in Count 10 with misprision of a felony, 18 U.S.C. § 4 . Trial by jury commenced January 8, 1979 on the charges against Guillermo Novo, Alvin Ross and Ignacio Novo only.”
Roberts v. United States (1980)
“18 U. S. C. § 4 . It has been construed to require "both knowledge of a crime and some affirmative act of concealment or participation.”
ROBLES (2006)
“(2) Misprision of a felony in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 4 (2000) is a crime involving moral turpitude.”
United States v. Courtnee Nicole Brantley (2015)
“Case: 13-12776 Date Filed: 10/09/2015 Page: 2 of 29 PROCTOR, District Judge: This appeal involves an infrequently charged crime: misprision of a felony in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 4 . Courtnee Nicole Brantley was convicted of misprision as a result of her actions during and…”
Abdul Itani v. U.S. Attorney General (2002)
“Itani argues that his criminal conviction for misprision of a felony, 18 U.S.C. § 4 , does not constitute a crime of moral turpitude for which he can be deported, and that he is entitled to a discretionary waiver of inadmissibility.”
United States v. Richard Baumgartner (2014)
“The federal misprision statute provides: “Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under…”
Mendez v. Barr (2020)
“The Department of Homeland 28 Security charged him as inadmissible for having been previously convicted of 29 misprision of a felony in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 4 . An immigration judge found 30 Mendez removable as charged, and the BIA affirmed, reasoning that misprision 31 is…”
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