United States v. Robert Waites Guthrie

CARNES, Circuit Judge:

Robert Waites Guthrie pleaded conditionally guilty to charges that he took, possessed, sold, and transported Alabama red-bellied turtles (Pseudemys alabamensis) in violation of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1531 et seq. (“ESA”), and that he conspired to sell alligator snapping turtles (Ma-croclemys temminicki) in violation of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981, 16 U.S.C. §§ 3371 et seq. (“Lacey Act”). Consistent with the conditional nature of his guilty plea, see Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(a)(2), and with the issues he preserved in the district court, Guthrie challenges…