Oklahoma Court Reverses State Murder Convictions, Says Chickasaw Reservation Intact

(March 15, 2021, 12:49 PM EDT) -- OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on March 11 overturned a man’s triple-murder conviction for the slaying of a Native American woman and her two young children after finding — as the U.S. Supreme Court did in McGirt v. Oklahoma — that the reservation where the crimes occurred is still intact, giving the federal government jurisdiction and not the state....

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