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COM. OF NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS v. KAIPAT

No. 95-17239.

94 F.3d 574 (1996)

COMMONWEALTH OF the NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Vincente Flores KAIPAT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 27, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Baka, Assistant Public Defender, Saipan, MP, for defendant-appellant.

Nicole C. Forelli, Assistant Attorney General, Saipan, MP, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: WOOD, CANBY, and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

RYMER, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether a statute of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) that earmarks civil and criminal fines imposed by the courts for a judicial building fund deprived Vincente Flores Kaipat of due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when he was fined by a judge of the CNMI superior court.

Kaipat was found guilty of various traffic offenses and was sentenced...

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