TACOMA — The federal prosecution of five Makah tribal members who killed a gray whale last September will go forward, though part of the case against them has been dismissed.

Chief U.S. Magistrate Kelley Arnold granted a motion Tuesday to dismiss a charge against the whalers brought under the Whaling Convention Act, ruling the act did not appropriately apply to a criminal case.
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