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§ 4111. —  Prosecution barred by foreign conviction.



[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 18USC4111]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART III--PRISONS AND PRISONERS
 
           CHAPTER 306--TRANSFER TO OR FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES
 
Sec. 4111. Prosecution barred by foreign conviction

    An offender transferred to the United States shall not be detained, 
prosecuted, tried, or sentenced by the United States, or any State 
thereof for any offense the prosecution of which would have been barred 
if the sentence upon which the transfer was based had been by a court of 
the jurisdiction seeking to prosecute the transferred offender, or if 
prosecution would have been barred by the laws of the jurisdiction 
seeking to prosecute the transferred offender if the sentence on which 
the transfer was based had been issued by a court of the United States 
or by a court of another State.

(Added Pub. L. 95-144, Sec. 1, Oct. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1218.)



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