Crawford

874 F.2d 817 Unpublished Disposition NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Eli CRAWFORD, Defendant-Appellant. No. 87-1306. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted * June 22, 1988. Decided April 28, 1989. Before FLETCHER, PREGERSON and CANBY, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 Eli Crawford appeals from a conviction for escaping from federal custody in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 751 (a). Crawford contends that the district court erred by refusing to give his requested jury instruction on the necessity defense. Crawford asserts that a necessity defense instruction was appropriate because he escaped to prevent his drug dependent wife from committing suicide. We affirm. 3 Crawford was a federal prisoner housed at a Federal Bureau of Prisons halfway house in San Francisco. The conditions of his custody permitted him to leave the premises for certain specified periods with the permission of the staff. On…