Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Fletcher Ice Island<br/>
Date: Jul 28, 2005 @ 20:12<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2117387858">Lucas wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; ...That year, Mario Jaime Escamilla was convicted of<br/>
&gt; involuntary manslaughter in a US Federal Court for the shooting death<br/>
&gt; of Bennie Lightsey while both were on Fletcher Ice Island. Bizarrely,<br/>
&gt; the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the case on procedural<br/>
&gt; grounds, after first noting that it was &#39;unable to decide&#39; the<br/>
&gt; jurisdictional issue. United States v Escamilla 467 F 2d 341, 344<br/>
&gt; (4th Cir 1972).<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Is there not a concept in the law that a person in the high seas or on an <br/>
unclaimed island is subject to the jurisdiction of the nation whose vessel or <br/>
aircraft he last alighted (or if in an unregistered vessel or aircraft, of the <br/>
nation whose port he last departed)?  I seem to recall such a thing, but I can&#39;t <br/>
put my finger on it.<br/>
<br/>
Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>