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U.S. v. PLACE

No. 11-1246.

693 F.3d 219 (2012)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. David L. PLACE, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 21, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Martin Richey , Federal Defender Office, for appellant.

Robert G. Dreher , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Environment & Natural Res. Division, with whom Gary Donner , James B. Nelson , and Allen M. Brabender , Attorneys, U.S. Dep't of Justice, Environment & Natural Res. Division, were on brief, for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, LIPEZ and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.

But still another inquiry remains ... whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not at last be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the last man, smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

David L. Place appeals his convictions for illegally trafficking in sperm whale teeth and narwhal tusks. Specifically...

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