18 U.S.C. § 4111
Prosecution barred by foreign conviction
An offender transferred to the United States shall not be detained, prosecuted, tried, or sentenced by the United States, or any State thereof for any offense the prosecution of which would have been barred if the sentence upon which the transfer was based had been by a court of the jurisdiction seeking to prosecute the transferred offender, or if prosecution would have been barred by the laws of the jurisdiction seeking to prosecute the transferred offender if the sentence on which the transfer was based had been issued by a court of the United States or by a court of another State.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1987–1990 · leading case: United States v. John Edmund Patterson
United States v. John Edmund Patterson (1987)
“Patterson argues (1) that the counterfeiting charges against him should have been dismissed pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4111 (1982) because he had already been .”
United States v. Gambino (1990)
“This is the same heroin importation plot for which Adamita was indicted in 1980 in the Eastern District of New York, and for which Giuseppe Gambino was tried and acquitted in 1981.”
United States v. Humberto Fontanez (1989)
“18 U.S.C. § 4111 . On its face, this section provides only that the foreign conviction bars a prosecution in the receiving jurisdiction where such a prosecution would have been barred if the foreign conviction had instead been a conviction entered in a court of the receiving…”
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