Tuncel was, however, sentenced to 10 years and six months' imprisonment for a separate crime.
"This is a separate crime and deserves a separate sentence," she said.
A separate crime of torture was recognized by the Federal courts as actionable under the statute in 1980.
Treason is a separate crime of passing secret military information to a country at war with the United States.
"We've got two big separate crimes the drug running and the kidnappings and they don't seem to be related."
Infanticide was made a separate crime from murder in 1949.
Sullivan was not granted immunity for this separate crime.
The sentence was relatively light compared to sodomy, which remained a separate crime.
He was convicted of a separate crime, for which he is serving a prison sentence.
Turkey lists trafficking as a separate crime in its new penal code, which took effect at the beginning of June.