(ORDER LIST: 520 U.S.)

TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1997

ORDER IN PENDING CASE

No. 96-7151.	Debra Faye Lewis, Petitioner v. United States.

The order granting the petition for a writ

of certiorari is amended to read:

The motion of petitioner for leave to proceed

in forma pauperis is granted. The petition for a

writ of certiorari is granted limited to the following

question: Whether petitioner was properly charged and

convicted for the murder of her four-year old stepdaughter

under the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. §13, and the

Louisiana child murder statute, 14 La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §30A(5),

and if not, whether the sentence was proper?