Pitt-Bey v. District of Columbia

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• rejecting argument that appellant convicted of disobeying the lawful order of a police officer had “immunity from prosecution under the Moroccan-American Treaty of Peace and Friendship, ratified by President Andrew Jackson on January 28, 1837”
• rejecting argument that appellant convicted of disobeying the lawful order of a police officer had “immunity from prosecution under the Moroccan-American Treaty of Peace and Friendship, ratified by President Andrew Jackson on January 28, 1837”
• rejecting claims that criminal defendant was “immune from prosecution in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia” and that he “should be accorded diplomatic immunity pursuant to federal law” based on his status as a member of The Nation of Moorish Americans
• rejecting claims that criminal defendant was “immune from prosecution in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia” and that he “should be accorded diplomatic immunity pursuant to federal law” based on his status as a member of The Nation of Moorish Americans”
• internal citation omitted; see also El Ameen Bey v. Stumpf, 825 F. Supp. 2d 537, 558 & n.10 (D.N.J. 2011
• self-proclaimed “Moorish” minister has no diplomatic immunity protection from criminal proceedings conducted within the United States territory

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