IN RE WILSON

Docket No. Crim. 21750.

30 Cal.3d 21 (1981)

634 P.2d 363

177 Cal. Rptr. 336

In re ANDREW WILSON on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

October 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

David J. Rapport, Lester J. Marston, Pamela S. Williams, Henry J. Sockbeson, Marilyn B. Miles and Michael S. Pfeffer for Petitioner.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Gregory W. Baugher, Bruce S. Flushman, Roderick E. Walston and Charles W. Getz IV, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


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...

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