Legal Opinion
United States v. Alfred D. Kincaid, United States of America v. Albert J. Greene, United States of America v. Kelley Twomey
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 21, 1983No. 82-1925, 83-1008 and 83-1025PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
Appellants were convicted of conspiracy to import marijuana. Their conviction rests, in large part, upon evidence seized by the Coast Guard from the British-registered ship Persistence while that ship was sailing on the high seas. Before their trial, the appellants (who are all American citizens) moved to suppress that evidence. In their view, the search violated Article 6 of the
Convention on the High Seas, opened for signature April 28, 1958, 13 U.S.T. 2312, T.I.A.S. No. 5200 (entered into force Sept. 30, 1962), which prohibits unauthorized interference with a foreign…
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