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9 GCA § 80.37

2 Habitual Offenders

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 9 — Crimes and Corrections
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(a)Notwithstanding any provision that establishes a shorter term of imprisonment, a person who has been convicted of committing or attempting or conspiring to commit any violent or aggravated felonies and who has previously been convicted of two violent or aggravated felonies not committed on the same occasion and separated by intervening arrest shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life and is not eligible for suspension of the sentence, probation, parole, or release.

(b)In order for the penalty under this Section to apply, judgment for the aggravated or violent felonies that comprise the prior conviction shall have been entered within fifteen years of the conviction for the current offense; however, time spent in custody or on probation for an offense or while the person is an absconder shall not be excluded from the calculation of the fifteen years.

(c)For the purposes of this Section:

(1)“violent or aggravated felony” means any of the following offenses if committed in Guam or any offense committed outside Guam that if committed in Guam would constitute one of the following offenses:

(A)aggravated murder, murder and manslaughter (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated §§ 16.30, 16.40 and 16.50)

(B)aggravated assault (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated § 19.20)

(C)kidnapping (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated § 22.20)

(D)criminal sexual conduct in the 1st and 2nd degree (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated §§ 25.15 and 25.20) CH. 80 DISPOSITION OF OFFENDERS

(E)compelling prostitution (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated § 28.30, as defined involving a child)

(F)indecent electronic display to a child (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated § 25A102)

(G)electronic enticement of a child as a 1st and 2nd degree felony (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated §§ 25A105, 25A104)

(H)crimes involving obscenity and related offenses involving children (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated §§ 28.51 and 28.52)

(I)photography of minors’ sexual acts (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated § 28.80)

(J)possession of child pornography (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated § 25A202)

(K)dissemination of child pornography (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated § 25A203)

(L)aggravated arson (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated § 34.20)

(M)robbery in the 1st and 2nd degree (Title 9 Guam Code Annotated §§ 40.10 and 40.20).

(d)Under the terms of the Compacts of Free Association (COFA), citizens of the Freely Associated States [the sovereign states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Republic of Belau], may enter the U.S. under a special status, and are treated as foreign nationals while in the U.S., such status allowing the U.S. to deport a citizen of any COFA state if such citizen is found guilty of breaking or disregarding the laws of a U.S. jurisdiction.

(1)A COFA citizen shall be considered deportable if convicted of a felony or a crime of moral turpitude; or if sentenced to one

(1)year or more for any crime(s) committed; or if the COFA citizen becomes a repeat offender for driving-under-the-influence of alcohol.

(2)Such COFA citizen in violation of the COFA will be treated as any other foreign national and shall be deported if convicted of a deportable crime under the terms of the Compact of Free Association.

(3)Upon conviction of a deportable crime, the Attorney General of Guam

(AG)shall immediately notify the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

(ICE)Division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

(DHS)of Guam’s desire to have the COFA citizen deported. The AG shall work closely with the U.S. ICE Division of DHS to ensure all documents related to the conviction and required for deportation are immediately provided to the proper authorities. Citizens of the U.S. cannot be deported under the terms of the COFA. The AG shall transmit a quarterly report to I Liheslatura indicating how many cases were forwarded to the U.S. ICE Division of DHS for deportation and the status of those cases. The AG shall also publish this report on its website on a quarterly basis.

(e)If the court certifies that a defendant has a mental health illness, the provisions of Subsection

(a)do not apply.

§ The story of this section

  1. Enacted by P.L. 32-49 § 2 — introduced as Bill 107-32 · introduced by Brant T. McCreadie + 14 cosponsors · lead sponsor unverified

Interpreted by the courts:

  • 1998 Guam 32 — People of Guam vs. James Evangelista Reyes (1998) · per Janet Healy Weeks, J. · cited at ¶23
  • 1999 Guam 22 — People of Guam vs. Albert Iriarte Evaristo (1999) · per Benjamin J.F. Cruz, J. · cited at ¶35
  • 2001 Guam 1 — People of Guam v. Randy Ignacio Chargualaf (2001) · per Peter C. Siguenza, J. · cited at ¶32
  • 2001 Guam 18 — People of Guam v. Osmundo V. Sangalang, Jr. (2001) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · cited at ¶2
  • 2004 Guam 2 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Seung Kweon Chung, aka Jeong; Seung-Kwon, Defendant-Appellant (2004) · per Frances M. Tydingco-Gatewood, J. · cited at ¶1
  • 2005 Guam 20 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jackery B. White, Defendant-Appellant (2005) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · cited at ¶5
  • 2008 Guam 8 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Larry Van Bui, Defendant-Appellant (2008) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · cited at ¶6
  • 2014 Guam 13 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Keith Vaughn Meseral, Defendant-Appellant, CRA10-005 (2014) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · cited at ¶2
  • 2015 Guam 27 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David Villena Quitugua, Jr., Defendant-Appellant, CRA14-016 (2015) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · cited at ¶14
  • 2015 Guam 37 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kyle J. Indalecio Camacho, Defendant-Appellant, CRA14-024 (2015) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · cited at ¶29
  • 2016 Guam 17 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Moses M. Moses, Defendant-Appellee, CRA15-020 (2016) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · cited at ¶4
  • 2016 Guam 25 — The People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ruben Katzuta aka Peter John, Defendant-Appellant, CRA15-016 (2016) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · cited at ¶4
  • 2016 Guam 31 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Tommy John Quichocho Afaisen, Defendant-Appellant, CRA15-021 (2016) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · cited at ¶6
  • 2016 Guam 40 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee v. John J. Manibusan, Defendant-Appellant, CRA16-002 (2016) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · cited at ¶4
  • 2017 Guam 4 — The People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kevin Anthony Guerrero, Defendant-Appellant, CRA15-035 (2017) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · cited at ¶5
  • 2019 Guam 2 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Benny Sam Robert, Defendant-Appellant (2019) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · pinpoints (a)(1) at ¶13
  • 2020 Guam 11 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee vs. Jonovan Michael Laitan Cruz, Defendant-Appellant (2020) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · cited at ¶1
  • 2021 Guam 13 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee vs. Redtwelve Tfong, aka Redtwelve Tefong, aka Luke West, aka Nois West, aka Retwen D (2021) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · pinpoints (a)(1) at ¶34
  • 2021 Guam 18 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joshua Brandon Perez, Defendant-Appellant (2021) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · cited at ¶20
  • 2021 Guam 9 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Vincent Rodriguez Cepeda, Defendant-Appellant (2021) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · cited at ¶2
  • 2022 Guam 2 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee vs. Emmanuel Manny Reselap, Defendant-Appellant (2022) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · pinpoints (a)(2), (d) at ¶6
  • 2022 Guam 9 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jordan Saul Rachulap, Defendant-Appellant (2022) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · pinpoints (a) at ¶1
  • 2023 Guam 19 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Francis Jerome Taisacan, Defendant-Appellant (2023) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · cited at ¶41
  • 2023 Guam 23 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rinext Riosen, Defendant-Appellant (2023) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · cited at ¶24
  • 2023 Guam 26 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joyner Scott Sked, Defendant-Appellant (2023) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · cited at ¶32
  • 2024 Guam 10 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee vs. JOINER ANES SORAM, Defendant-Appellant (2024) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · cited at ¶2
  • 2025 Guam 5 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Nathan Jon Ojeda, Defendant-Appellant (2025) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · cited at ¶13

Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.