PEOPLE v. LeBLANC

Docket Nos. 56547, 56567, (Calendar Nos. 6, 7).

399 Mich. 31 (1976)

248 N.W.2d 199

PEOPLE v. LeBLANC

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 27, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Jerome Maslowski and Stewart H. Freeman, Assistants Attorney General, for the people.

Kathryn Tierney, William J. James, and Bruce R. Greene for the defendant.

Amici Curiae:

Friehofer, Hecht, Oosterhouse & DeBoer, P.C. (by Peter W. Steketee) for Michigan United Conservation Clubs and Trout, Unlimited.


WILLIAMS, J.

Defendant A.B. LeBlanc, a Chippewa Indian and an enrolled member of the Bay Mills Indian Community, was arrested on September 28, 1971 in Pendills Bay of Lake Superior about 20 miles west of Sault Ste. Marie by a conservation officer for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and charged with fishing commercially without a license and with fishing with an illegal device, a gill net. He was convicted of both charges in district court.

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