Supreme Court Stays Oklahoma Criminal Jurisdiction Ruling Pending Cert Petition

Mealey's (May 28, 2021, 1:47 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on May 26 granted Oklahoma’s request for a stay of a state appeals court’s reversal of a man’s murder conviction for the slaying of a Native American woman and her two young children until a planned petition for a writ of certiorari by the state can be decided by the high court....