Legal Opinion
In Re Wilson
California Supreme Court
Decided October 8, 1981No. Crim. 21750PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BIRD, C. J.
May an exception to the law, which otherwise applies equally to every Californian, be carved out for a special class of individuals so that a person may violate, with impunity, a criminal statute which prohibits hunting out of season on public or private land simply because he belongs to an Indian tribe which once occupied the land?
I
The relevant facts are uncontroverted. Petitioner, Andrew Wilson, is a member of the Atsugewi branch of the Pit River Indians. About 5:30 p.m. on December 8, 1978, he was apprehended by William Fisher, a game warden, with two deer carcasses in…
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