Legal Opinion

United States v. Jeanine M. Biocic

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided May 6, 1991No. 90-5630PublishedCited by 32 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

Jeanine Biocic appeals her conviction for violating a United States Fish and Wildlife regulation, 50 C.F.R. § 27.83, by going partially nude in a national wildlife refuge. She contends on various grounds that the regulation is unconstitutional as applied to her. We affirm the conviction.

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On a summer day in June of 1989, Ms. Biocic, an adult female, was walking on the beach on the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Accomack County, Virginia, with a male companion. “To get some extra sun,” as she put it, she removed the top of her two-piece bathing suit, fully…

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