Postal Letter

Will I go to state or federal prison?

I live in Texas and this is a hypothetical situation. If I committed arson and was being chased by the Texas state troopers in a high speed chase. I am driving at 90 miles per hour and trying to get away from them. Unfortunately, my gas is starting to run out and I get off the highway through a feeder into a regular street. I know that my car will run out of gas soon, the gas light is bright yellow, I know that they will send me to a Texas state prison because arson is a state crime/felony, and I am being chased by Texas state troopers. I've worked in a Texas prison as a correctional officer and I don't want to go there, it is terrible, I make a choice and decide that federal prison beats a state prison. 50 yards away to my right there is a federal United States postal office, and I then decide to crash my car into the US federal postal office. I then come out of the car and surrender to the state troopers who read me my rights and arrest me. Now, in this hypothetical situation. When I appear before a court, will I be sent to a federal or a state prison? Okay the arson was made against a private home. Then comes evading arrest in a high speed chase at 90 miles per hour. Finally, crashing my car into a US federal post office.

Public Comments

1. Fed
2. State, no real crime against the postal service was committed!
3. State---property damage accident at a Post Office will not get you Federal time..
4. State since you committed no federal crime
5. What was the act of arson against? Fed building = fed prison.
6. You'll do neither state nor federal time. Given the jurisdiction of the arson, In all likelihood, you'll be sent to Huntsville's Ellis Unit & dispatched via lethal injection.
7. The prison depends on the nature of the crime, not the location of the arrest. If the crime is a state crime one goes to a state prison, even if arrested on federal land. (not all post-offices are exclusively federal jurisdiction. Most are shared jurisdiction). If the crime is a violation of a federal statute and one is tried in a federal court, then one goes to a federal prison regardless of where one is arrested.
8. If you were really a corrections officer you would already know the answer to that question, and as correctional officer you would automatically be placed in protective custody.
9. state scene you committed no federal crime