Indian Prisoner Raises Jurisdiction Challenge Based On Location Of Crimes

(November 18, 2019, 12:47 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A member of the Cherokee Nation sentenced to 30 years in state prison on multiple drug-dealing convictions reiterates in an Oct. 25 U.S. Supreme Court reply brief that his petition for certiorari should be granted because a search of his home in Indian country violated federal law (Patrick Joseph Terry v. Oklahoma, No. 18-8801, U.S. Sup.)....