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The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed that the Cherokee Nation s reservation was never disestablished after Judge Gary L. Lumpkin dismissed charges against 47-year-old Travis Hogner, a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.
Hogner was charged for possessing a firearm after a felony within the Cherokee Nation. He will not be retried because the statute of limitations expired in his case.
Over the last few months, the Seminole Nation, Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation have all had their reservation boundaries affirmed. Several post-conviction relief cases involving felony defendants challenged the state s right to try their cases after last summer s landmark
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“One of the ways that you might do that would be to compact where the state could exercise jurisdiction over non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians” on tribal reservations, but without impacting tribal sovereignty, Hill said.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals recently rejected state Attorney General Mike Hunter’s claim that the state also had jurisdiction in the case of Shaun Michael Bosse, a decision that Hunter is asking the court to reconsider.
The court overturned the conviction and death sentence of Bosse, who is not Native American but was convicted in the 2010 killings of Katrina Griffin and her two young children, who were Native American, on land within the Chickasaw Nation’s historic reservation.
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