OPINION
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge.
Once again we are asked to delineate the appropriate scope of criminal law power as it is reposed within the federal government: this time, whether, under the general federal arson statute, setting fire to a church constitutes a federal offense. We hold that ordinarily it does not.
Appellant Robin Lamont entered a conditional guilty plea to committing arson with respect...
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