PEOPLE OF TERRITORY OF GUAM v. QUINATA

No. 85-1205.

785 F.2d 812 (1986)

The PEOPLE OF the TERRITORY OF GUAM, Appellee, v. Edwin Anthony QUINATA, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 26, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret Bean, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Vance Guerena, Asst. U.S. Atty., Agana, Guam, for appellee.

Howard G. Trapp, Trapp & Untalan, Agana, Guam, for appellant.

Before POOLE, BEEZER and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.


KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:

I.

On November 18, 1980, Edwin Quinata allegedly joined two of his cousins in an attack on a man with whom they were drinking. The victim died. The next day, Quinata turned eighteen. On November 29, 1980, Guam filed a manslaughter charge against him in the Superior Court of Guam, Adult Division. Quinata quickly won dismissal of the charge when it was discovered that he had been a minor when the homicide occurred.

Guam then...

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