Legal Opinion
Jake King v. Honorable Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior of the United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 9, 1975No. 73-1995PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBB, Circuit Judge:
In this action begun in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia the question presented to that court was whether, under the Constitution of the United States, an American citizen charged with a crime in violation of the laws of the unincorporated territory of American Samoa was entitled to a trial by jury. The District Court dismissed the action for lack of jurisdiction. We reverse and remand.
American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States consisting of a cluster of small islands in the South Pacific. The Secretary of the Interior…
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