---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 4111"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "4111"
heading: "Prosecution barred by foreign conviction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/4111"
units:
  - "Part III — Prisons and Prisoners"
  - "Chapter 306 — Transfer to or from Foreign Countries"
---

# §4111. Prosecution barred by foreign conviction


An [offender](/usc/18/4101.md?p=e) transferred to the United States shall not be detained, prosecuted, tried, or sentenced by the United States, or any [State](/usc/18/4101.md?p=i) thereof for any offense the prosecution of which would have been barred if the [sentence](/usc/18/4101.md?p=h) upon which the [transfer](/usc/18/4101.md?p=j) was based had been by a court of the jurisdiction seeking to prosecute the transferred [offender](/usc/18/4101.md?p=e), or if prosecution would have been barred by the laws of the jurisdiction seeking to prosecute the transferred [offender](/usc/18/4101.md?p=e) if the [sentence](/usc/18/4101.md?p=h) on which the [transfer](/usc/18/4101.md?p=j) was based had been issued by a court of the United States or by a court of another [State](/usc/18/4101.md?p=i).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 95–144, § 1, Oct. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1218.)