U.S. v. SHEEK

No. 92-5278.

990 F.2d 150 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Grace Ann SHEEK, Defendant-Appellee, and John Gordon Wallace, Sherri Lynn Wallace, Stephen Thomas Porto, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 30, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Earl Day, II, Asst. U.S. Atty., Florence, SC, argued (John S. Simmons, U.S. Atty., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Karen Newell Fryar, Columbia, SC, argued (Jack B. Swerling, on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before RUSSELL and HALL, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


OPINION

MORGAN, District Judge:

Appellee, Grace Ann Sheek was indicted, along with several others, on three counts relating to the August 1991 kidnapping of her two natural children, Amanda and Michael York, and their subsequent transportation across state lines. The indictment alleged that Sheek conspired to kidnap and transport the two children in interstate commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1201, 924(c)(1) and 371, that she kidnapped and...

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