Charles v. State

OPINION

BOLGER, Judge.

Marvin L. Charles Sr. was convicted of violating several state hunting regulations related to the taking of does on Prince of Wales Island. Charles argues that he was entitled to an evidentiary hearing in district court to show that the hunting regulations were invalid because they conflicted with federal law requiring a priority for subsistence hunting. We uphold the district court’s decision to deny the hearing because Charles did not raise any factual dispute about the validity of the regulations.

Facts and proceedings

Charles was convicted of five counts of unlawful…