Dismissal Of DUI Case Reversed By Tribe’s Appeals Court Due To Virus Closures

(June 28, 2023, 2:33 PM EDT) -- PABLO, Mont. — A Montana Indian tribe’s appellate court reversed the dismissal of a woman’s drunken driving charges for lack of a speedy trial, finding that the tribe had the authority to close the tribal court due to the COVID-19 pandemic and that the defendant “was not unduly burdened in the legal sense by any pandemic-related delays of her criminal trial.”...

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