8th Circuit: Tribal Court Conviction Proper As Predicate Offense To Gun Charge

Mealey's (August 30, 2017, 1:38 PM EDT) -- ST. PAUL, Minn. — A District Court correctly relied on a man’s prior tribal court conviction for domestic violence when allowing a federal weapons charge to proceed, even though the man was represented by a lay person, and not a licensed attorney, in the tribal court proceeding, a divided Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found Aug. 29 (United States of America v. Michael Lee Long, Jr., No. 16-3397, 8th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 16473)....