10th Circuit Affirms Fatal DUI Crash Happened In Indian Country

(September 6, 2019, 3:04 PM EDT) -- DENVER — A piece of land in New Mexico where a fatal drunken-driving crash happened is Indian country because the land was a grant from a prior sovereign and the exterior boundaries of the disputed land were confirmed by Congress as Indian land, the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decided Sept. 4 in affirming the drunken driver’s murder conviction (United States v. Jeffrey Antonio, No. 18-2118, 10th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 26657)....