U.S. v. BOYNTON

No. 94-5481.

63 F.3d 337 (1995)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stephen S. BOYNTON; James R. Booth; Bernard Dadds, Jr., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 28, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Stephen Slater Boynton, Vienna, VA, for appellants. Ethan L. Bauman, Asst. U.S. Atty., Baltimore, MD, for appellee. ON BRIEF: Lynne A. Battaglia, U.S. Atty., Baltimore, MD, for appellee.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge, and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MURNAGHAN wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge ERVIN and Senior Judge PHILLIPS joined.

OPINION

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Defendants were convicted of hunting migratory birds over a baited area, a strict liability crime. Defendants admitted at a bench trial that they were hunting migratory birds over bait, but claimed that the grain which constituted the bait was scattered as the result of "normal agricultural...

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