18 U.S.C. § 4111
Prosecution barred by foreign conviction
United States · Title 18 — CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Status: effective
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- 18 U.S.C. § 4111, Prosecution barred by foreign conviction, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/450109
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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.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- A bill to provide for the implementation of treaties for the transfer of offenders to or from foreign countries.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally