United States v. Luis Alberto Victoria

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that international law \gives the United States . . . authority to treat stateless vessels as if they were its own\
• concluding that defense counsel’s failure to raise meritless objections did not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel
• holding that a boat, sixty miles off the coast of Colombia, that “had no flag or any other indications of nationality” was “a ‘stateless’ vessel” under the MDLEA and international law because it had “no evidence of its nationality on board.”
• noting that \the Coast Guard found ... navigational charts indicating a course for the ... southern tip of Florida\
• holding that “the United States, as a matter of international law, may prosecute drug offenders on stateless ships found on the high seas” because “international law ... gives the ‘United States ... authority to treat stateless vessels as if they were its own.’”
• vessel stateless under 46 U.S.C. App. § 1903(c)(2)(B) because it failed on request to make a claim of nationality or registry

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).