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Despite the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination efforts, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the United States. To date, 30,030,084 Americans have been infected with the virus and 545,022 have died as a result. On a per capita basis, the U.S. has one of the highest known infections rates in the world. In the Oklahoma […]
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Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter launched an effort Wednesday to preserve state jurisdiction over certain crimes involving Native Americans on reservations and to prevent some state inmates from getting their convictions overturned for crimes committed in Indian Country.
In a petition filed in the case of death row inmate Shaun Michael Bosse, Hunter said the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals overlooked key arguments when it ruled earlier this month that Bosse, a non-Indian, should have been tried in federal court for killing Katrina Griffin and her two children, who were members of the Chickasaw Nation.
The attorney general also said the appeals court should have prevented Bosse from appealing his conviction in the wake of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding crimes on Indian reservations because he hadn’t previously raised the question of jurisdiction.