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U.S. v. GIBSON

No. 88-5636.

880 F.2d 795 (1989)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ricardo GIBSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 25, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Bruce English (English & Smith, Alexandria, Va., on brief), for defendant-appellant.

Debra Sue Straus, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C. (Henry E. Hudson, U.S. Atty., Alexandria, Va., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, MURNAGHAN, and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

Ricardo Gibson challenges the district court ruling that the Assimilative Crimes Act (Act), 18 U.S.C. § 13, was properly invoked to charge him with prisoner possession of contraband while he was an inmate at the Lorton, Virginia, Reformatory. The charge was assimilated under the Act from Virginia law. Gibson maintains that he should not have been prosecuted under an assimilated Virginia statute because Lorton is a federal penal institution...

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