Supreme Court Grants Cert, Vacates, Remands Another Indian Crimes Case In Oklahoma

(October 3, 2022, 12:39 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A petition for certiorari from Oklahoma asking the U.S. Supreme Court if, in the wake of its landmark criminal jurisdiction ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma, the state has the authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country was granted Oct. 3, with the high court then vacating a state criminal appeals court’s ruling in the case of a woman convicted of mutilating a corpse in a funeral home and remanding in light of the ruling in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta....