KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
In this appeal we consider a challenge to the constitutionality of the restitution provisions of the Victim and Witness Protection Act of 1982 (the "VWPA" or "Act"). Appellants Carlton Welden, Edward Eugene Satterfield and Perry Don Allison were convicted by a jury of one count of kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1). The court sentenced Satterfield to life imprisonment, Welden to twenty...
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