United States v. Ronald Richard Aanerud, Paul Vincent Morinville, and Rhonda Rae Morinville

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Ronald Richard Aanerud, Paul Vincent Morinville, and Rhonda Rae Morinville appeal their convictions for trapping leeches without special permits in violation of 18 *958U.S.C. § 2 (1982) and 50 C.F.R. § 27.51 (1988). Before the district court,1 appellants argued that the charges against them should be dismissed because the government’s enforcement policy violated their constitutional rights under the equal protection clause of the fifth amendment in two ways: (1) the government’s prosecution of them constituted selective enforcement of the laws; and (2) the government…