United States Ninth Circuit

Convictions of defendants for being aliens who knowingly and willfully attempted to enter the United States at a time or place not designated by immigration officers in violation of 8 U.S.C. section 1325(a)(1) are reversed because an alien does not enter or attempt to enter the United States for purposes of section 1325(a)(1) when traveling by boat from the Commonwealth Northern Mariana Islands to Guam.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/02/2011
• Published 05/02/2011

Judges

• TASHIMA

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George Anthony Long, Kirk W. Schuler