PEOPLE v. McCOVEY

Docket No. Crim. 23387.

36 Cal.3d 517 (1984)

685 P.2d 687

205 Cal. Rptr. 643

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WALTER McCOVEY, JR., et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

July 26, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

George Forman, under appointment by the Supreme Court, David Rapport, Lester Marston, Stephen Quesenberry and Anthony M. D'Anna for Defendants and Appellants.

George Deukmejian, and John K. Van de Kamp, Attorneys General, R.H. Connett, Assistant Attorney General, Roderick E. Walston, Charles W. Getz IV, Mary E. Hackenbracht and Bruce S. Flushman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

BIRD, C.J.

Is the state preempted from regulating the off-reservation sale or possession for sale of fish caught by Hoopa Valley Reservation Indians on the reservation?

I.

Appellant, Walter McCovey, Jr., is a Yurok1 Indian of the Hoopa Valley Reservation located in northern California. This reservation includes a one-mile strip of land on each side of the Klamath River from the...

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