Domestic Violence Tribal Defendant Properly Sentenced, Federal Judge Rules

(March 4, 2021, 2:23 PM EST) -- SPOKANE, Wash. — An Indian sentenced to spend time in a tribal prison for domestic assault-related convictions lost his chance for habeas relief on Feb. 26 when a Washington federal judge found that his cumulative sentence of more than a year in jail did not violate the Tribal Law and Order Act, and he failed to exhaust his tribal remedies on his challenge to long-term confinement in the tribe’s prison....