North Dakota Supreme Court: DUI Arrest On Tribal Land Not Valid

(April 12, 2018, 10:09 AM EDT) -- BISMARCK, N.D. — A tribal member who had his driver’s license revoked by North Dakota for driving drunk on another tribe’s reservation had his driving privileges reinstated by the state’s Supreme Court, which held April 10 that his arrest was not valid because the county sheriff’s deputy who made the arrest did not have the authority to enforce the state’s criminal laws against an Indian on Indian land (Harold J. Olson v. North Dakota Department of Transportation, No. 20170351, N.D. Sup., 2018 N.D. LEXIS 104)....