8th Circuit Affirms Tribal Member’s Meth Trafficking Conviction

Mealey's (May 4, 2023, 11:38 AM EDT) -- ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Native American’s jurisdictional challenges to his drug trafficking conviction based on the crimes taking place on a reservation and involving only other Indians “are foreclosed by precedent,” the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled May 3 in affirming the defendant’s conviction and 30-year prison sentence....