Certiorari Sought On Whether 1999 Murder Occurred In Indian Country

Mealey's (February 8, 2018, 10:34 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal appeals court’s reversal of a Native American man’s 18-year-old state court conviction for killing another member of his tribe must be vacated because the court’s finding that the murder took place on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma that had not been disestablished by Congress will have dire consequences for the people of the state, a prison warden told the U.S. Supreme Court Feb. 6 (Terry Royal v. Patrick Dwayne Murphy, No. 17-1107, U.S. Sup.)....