Federal · Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

18 U.S.C. § 4112: Loss of rights, disqualification

Civil

What this law says, in plain English

This statute specifies that offenders transferred to the U.S. to serve foreign sentences do not lose rights beyond what U.S. or state law would impose for that foreign conviction.

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An offender transferred to the United States to serve a sentence imposed by a foreign court shall not incur any loss of civil, political, or civic rights nor incur any disqualification other than those which under the laws of the United States or of the State in which the issue arises would result from the fact of the conviction in the foreign country.

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