U.S. v. KENT

No. 88-1088.

912 F.2d 277 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lavon R. KENT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 1, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abby Abinanti, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellant.

Thomas J. Hopkins, Asst. U.S. Atty., Sacramento, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PREGERSON, CANBY and BEEZER, Circuit Judges.


PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

Lavon R. Kent, a Karuk Indian, appeals her conviction after a bench trial for unauthorized residential occupancy of national forest system land. Kent contends that the district court erred in holding that she had no individual aboriginal rights to occupy the land in question. She also contends, for the first time on appeal, (1) that she was entitled to occupy the land because the Department of the Interior had issued her a certificate of...

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