United States v. Wilbur

I agree that there was no violation of the defendants’ due process rights when the *1183government indicted and prosecuted the defendants for violations of the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act (CCTA). See United States v. Baker, 63 F.3d 1478, 1492 (9th Cir.1995).

I also agree that neither the Treaty at Point Elliott nor any Washington law deprives the State of Washington of its inherent power to enforce its cigarette tax laws against the defendants. See id. at 1485 (interpreting a similar treaty provision and concluding that the CCTA did not impermissibly restrict tribal trading); see also…