[pct-l] criminal conviction for leaving water cache in desert overturned by 9th U.S. Court of Appeals

[Paul Breed]

  The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals today reversed the criminal 
conviction of the man charged with a crime for leaving water bottles in 
the Arizona desert.   The court held that a reasonable person might not 
understand that leaving drinking water for thirsty people could 
constitute littering and that the statute was, therefore, impermissibly 
vague to support a criminal prosecution.


http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2010/09/02/09-10134.pdf