Montana Federal Judge Grants Prisoners’ Habeas Corpus Petition Against Tribe

(November 27, 2023, 10:00 AM EST) -- GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A man sentenced to more than a year in prison by the courts of the Blackfeet Nation was denied effective assistance of counsel because the tribe sentenced him without the presence of counsel, a Montana federal judge found in granting the man’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus....