[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3386 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3386

    To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for 
 transporting the corpses of homicide victims across State lines with 
                intent to prevent their use as evidence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 3, 2007

   Mr. Cohen (for himself, Mr. English of Pennsylvania, Mr. Davis of 
Illinois, Mr. Gonzalez, and Mr. Arcuri) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for 
 transporting the corpses of homicide victims across State lines with 
                intent to prevent their use as evidence.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Mickey Wright Act''.

SEC. 2. TRANSPORTATION OF HOMICIDE VICTIM'S CORPSE ACROSS STATE LINES.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 1153. Transportation of homicide victim's corpse across State 
              lines
    ``(a) Whoever knowingly transports or attempts to transport any 
portion of the corpse of a homicide victim across a State line with 
intent to prevent its use as evidence in a criminal prosecution related 
to the homicide shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for life or 
any term of years, or both.
    ``(b) The defendant shall serve a sentence of imprisonment imposed 
under this section consecutively to any sentence of imprisonment 
imposed in relation to the underlying homicide.
    ``(c) As used in this section the term `homicide' means any killing 
which is criminally punishable in the place it occurs.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new item:

``1153. Transportation of homicide victim's corpse across State 
                            lines.''.
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