Legal Opinion
United States v. Michael R. Raven
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 20, 1974No. 728PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:
The odyssey of the M/V ECLYPSE— a 83' two-masted woodenhull schooner —in the Port of Jacksonville, Florida was brief but perhaps too long. As a result of her shortened, but lengthened, stay, Raven, her owner, was convicted by a federal jury of the three misdemean ors (i) failing to properly mark a sunken vessel, (ii) obstructing a navigable waterway and (iii) failing to remove a sunken vessel. He was sentenced to 30 days suspended sentence on each of these counts to run concurrently. Because we affirm his conviction on (i) and (ii), under the concurrent sentence…
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