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The Cherokee Nation has filed more than 400 criminal cases since its eastern Oklahoma reservation was formally recognized last month and needs help from Congress to meet jurisdictional obligations that reach into 14 counties, Cherokee Nation Attorney General Sara Hill said Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters, Hill said the tribe will need financial aid to expand its criminal justice system, but also needs federal legislation allowing more flexibility in how cases are prosecuted. She renewed the tribe’s call for congressional authority to negotiate a compact with the state regarding criminal jurisdiction on the reservation.
“With additional tools, the state and the tribe can rewrite the rules of criminal jurisdiction in ways that better serve and protect everyone who lives on the Cherokee Nation reservation,” Hill said.
TAHLEQUAH â Many jurisdictional questions have been raised by the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision about how far the reach of tribal, state and federal law enforcement agencies extends onto Native reservations, particularly when non-Natives perpetrate a crime.
Cherokee Nation Attorney General Sara Hill spoke to reporters during an April 6 virtual press conference about the potential effects of McGirt.
âIt was important for the tribes to get an acknowledgment by the United States Supreme Court that the treaties made between the United States and the Five Tribes had meaning,â Hill said. âThe consequence of that was the acknowledgment that the state had been illegally prosecuting people â Indians or people who had committed crimes against Indians â for 100 years.â
The man accused of shooting and killing Annie Sandifer, a 33-year-old pregnant mother of five, in February 2020 was acquitted last week.
A jury in Milwaukee County on Friday found Antion D. Haywood, 32, of Milwaukee not guilty of first-degree reckless homicide, according to online court records.
Sandifer was a passenger on a party bus parked outside the former Gene’s Supper Club, at 4323 N. 60th St. in the Capitol Heights neighborhood on Milwaukee’s northwest side, when someone fired up to six rounds from the sunroof of a passing car, police said.
Haywood was charged more than a week after the shooting, after police held a news conference pleading for more information and the FBI offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Along with Mexico and the Philippines, the United States is considered one of the worst places for human trafficking.
There is not an official total on the number of victims, but the estimates have it in the hundreds of thousands.
Many programs focus on getting survivors out of human trafficking, but what will their lives be afterward?
Dorris Walker-Taylor’s life changed forever the day her father and mother were attacked by a family member.