United States Ninth Circuit

Defendants' convictions for furnishing liquor to minors on an Air Force base are affirmed where assimilation of Washington state law under the Assimilative Crimes Act (ACA) was proper because: 1) 50 U.S.C. app. section 473 and AFI 34-219 contained no generally applicable prohibitions, and thus did not establish federal policy against which a state statute must be measured for conflict or inconsistency; and 2) the specific statute at issue, Wash. Rev. Stat. section 66.44.270, was the type of prohibitory law the court had previously deemed properly assimilated under the ACA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/17/2010
• Published 08/17/2010

Judges

• A. Wallace Tashima

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Penny Fields, Aravind Swaninathan