Legal Opinion
People of Guam v. Benny Toves Guerrero
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 28, 2002No. 00-71247PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.
We must decide whether the Supreme Court of Guam may interpret the Territory of Guam’s “Bill of Rights,” which is a federal statute, to allow greater religious freedom than that provided by the First Amendment to the federal Constitution.
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Police officers of the Territory of Guam arrested Benny Toves Guerrero 1 at the Guam International Airport after they found five ounces of marijuana and ten grams of marijuana seeds in his belongings. He was duly indicted under Guam’s statutes criminalizing the importation of controlled substances. 9 Guam Code Ann. §§…
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