UNITED STATES v. POSTAL

No. 77-5354.

589 F.2d 862 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert Morris POSTAL, Salem L. Forsythe, and George A. Chitty, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 15, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene E. Hines, Washington, D. C., for Forsythe, Postal and Chitty.

Jack V. Eskenazi, U. S. Atty., Michael P. Sullivan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, TJOFLAT and VANCE, Circuit Judges.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

This case presents a consequential issue of international and domestic law that has been noted in this circuit but not yet authoritatively decided: whether a court of the United States can assert jurisdiction over persons arrested aboard a foreign vessel seized beyond the twelve-mile limit in violation of a particular provision of a treaty to which the United States and the foreign country are parties.1 We hold...

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