Court Criminal Law Oklahoma 
JURIST
JUNE 29, 2022
The US Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that the state of Oklahoma can prosecute non-Native Americans who commit crimes against Native Americans on tribal territory. Castro-Huerta appealed the ruling to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, which vacated his conviction as a result of McGirt.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 26, 2022
Share A sad story involving child neglect has become the subject of a Supreme Court case — and white-hot political rhetoric — because the crime occurred on the reservation of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and the victim (but, crucially, not the defendant) is a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The case, Oklahoma v.
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 28, 2022
Share At the last Supreme Court oral argument of Justice Stephen Breyer’s career, the court stepped into a dispute over the state of Oklahoma’s criminal jurisdiction authority in Indian country. Oklahoma v. The case comes on the heels of the court’s monumental 2020 decision, McGirt v. federal enclaves).
The Crime Report
JUNE 30, 2022
The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that Oklahoma can prosecute non-Native Americans in Indian Country, countering a previous 2020 decision recognizing nearly half of the state as a reservation, reports the Wall Street Journal. That authority belongs to the federal government and, typically for more minor offenses, tribal courts.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Share The Supreme Court heard argument on Tuesday in Denezpi v. United States , which examines whether the federal government can bring criminal charges in federal court against a defendant previously found guilty in a Court of Indian Offenses for an offense stemming from the same act.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has returned from its summer break and gotten down to business. The court agreed to review a dozen petitions from that conference. Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 14, 2022
Share In a term in which the justices are already slated to weigh in on disputes over public funding for private schools that teach religion , the role of spiritual advisers in the execution chamber , and the flying of a religious flag on a city flag pole , the Supreme Court on Friday added another religion case to its docket.
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