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UNITED STATES v. RAVEN

No. 74-1816. Summary Calendar.

500 F.2d 728 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Michael R. RAVEN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 20, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen P. Smith, III, Jacksonville, Fla. (Court-appointed), for defendant-appellant.

John L. Briggs, U. S. Atty., Howard T. Snyder, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., Wallace H. Johnson, Edmund B. Clark, Dirk D. Snel, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and THORNBERRY and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

The odyssey of the M/V ECLYPSE— a 83' two-masted woodenhull schooner—in the Port of Jacksonville, Florida was brief but perhaps too long. As a result of her shortened, but lengthened, stay, Raven, her owner, was convicted by a federal jury of the three misdemeanors (i) failing to properly mark a sunken vessel, (ii) obstructing a navigable waterway and (iii) failing to remove a sunken...

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