United States v. Philip Layfield

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• adopting Chatwin’s “appreciable period” test in Hostage Taking Act context “[i]n light of the persistent similarities between the kidnapping statute and [that] Act”
• rejecting claim that alien smuggling does not fall under the Act
• “[N]on- physical restraint[,] for instance, fear or deception[,] can be sufficient to restrain a person against her will.”
• “[T]his Court holds that a hostage is ‘seized’ or ‘detained’ within the meaning of the Hostage Taking Act when she is held or confined against her will for an appreciable period of time.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).