UNITED STATES v. DION

No. 85-246.

476 U.S. 734 (1986)

UNITED STATES v. DION

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 11, 1986


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey P. Minear argued the cause pro hac vice for the United States. On the briefs were Solicitor General Fried, Assistant Attorney General Habicht, Deputy Solicitor General Wallace, Harriet S. Shapiro, Donald A. Carr, Claire L. McGuire, and James C. Kilbourne.

Terry L. Pechota by appointment of the Court, 474 U.S. 978, argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.*

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation et al. by Harry R. Sachse and Arthur Lazarus, Jr.; for the Hopi Indian Tribe by Michael P. O'Connell; for the National Congress of American Indians et al. by Henry J. Sockbeson and Steven C. Moore; and for the Seminole Indian Tribe of Florida by Charles A. Hobbs and Jerry C. Straus.


JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.

Respondent Dwight Dion, Sr., a member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, was convicted of shooting four bald eagles on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota in violation of the Endangered Species Act, 87 Stat. 884, as amended, 16 U. S. C. § 1531 et seq. (1982 ed. and Supp. II).1 The District Court dismissed before trial a charge of shooting a golden eagle in violation of...

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