10th Circuit Says Land Where Traffic Offenses Occurred Is Not Indian Country

Mealey's (January 20, 2017, 12:48 PM EST) -- DENVER — A Utah county court was the proper venue to prosecute a Native American for traffic offenses because the section of state road where the offenses occurred has not been part of an Indian reservation since 1910, the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Jan. 19 (Richard Douglas Hackford v. State of Utah, et al., No. 15-4120, 10th Cir.; 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 949)....