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UNITED STATES v. RIGGS

No. 72-1159.

470 F.2d 505 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Glen Elmo RIGGS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 13, 1972.

Certiorari Denied March 26, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Ronald Lynch, Alexandria, Va. (Court-appointed), Howard, Stevens, Lynch, Cake & Howard, Alexandria, Va., on brief, for appellant.

David H. Hopkins, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Brian P. Gettings, U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Senior Circuit Judge, and WINTER and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.

Certiorari Denied March 26, 1973. See 93 S.Ct. 1536.

PER CURIAM:

The basic facts in this case are uncontested. On June 4, 1971, Glen Elmo Riggs boarded a United Airlines flight in Charleston, West Virginia, bound for Newark, New Jersey. Some twenty minutes after takeoff, Riggs, displaying a gun, demanded that the plane be flown to Israel. After he became convinced that a long-range plane had to be obtained for the transoceanic flight, Riggs permitted the plane...

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