(August 5, 2020, 3:53 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court needs to remedy a divide among the nation's courts on how to determine if a criminal defendant is an Indian for purposes of federal or state jurisdiction and whether the Indian status question should be left to juries to decide, a tribal descendant convicted of murder in a state court tells the high court in his July 27 petition for certiorari (George Lee Nobles v. North Carolina, No. 20-87, U.S. Sup., 2020 U.S. S. CT. BRIEFS LEXIS 2239)....