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KING v. MORTON

No. 73-1995.

520 F.2d 1140 (1975)

Jake KING, Appellant, v. Honorable Rogers C. B. MORTON, Secretary of the Interior of the United States.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 9, 1975.

As Amended November 26, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda F. Blumenfeld, Washington, D. C., for appellant. Daniel A. Rezneck and Anthony Z. Roisman, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellant.

Edwin E. Huddleson, III, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Carla A. Hills, Asst. Atty. Gen., Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., and Robert E. Kopp, Atty. Dept. of Justice, were on the brief for appellee.

Before TAMM and ROBB, Circuit Judges, and HART, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Opinion for The Court filed by Circuit Judge ROBB.

Opinion filed by Circuit Judge TAMM, dissenting.

ROBB, Circuit Judge:

In this action begun in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia the question presented to that court was whether, under the Constitution of the United States, an American citizen charged with a crime in violation of the laws of the unincorporated territory of American Samoa was entitled to a trial by jury. The...

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