DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.
This criminal appeal presents a clear-cut question of statutory construction: Does the immunity under 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a) (1983) in favor of a parent kidnaping his or her own minor child, extend to aiding and abetting by the parent in such kidnaping or in his or her participation in a conspiracy to kidnap the child? The question arises out of successive abductions by two divorced parents of a minor female child: the father, living...
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