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5 THINGS TO KNOW: What happens after a charge is dismissed due to McGirt?


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More than 140 cases have been filed in Choctaw Nation District Court in Durant since April 1.
The Choctaw Nation Division of Legal and Compliance answers questions following an April 1 decision by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in Sizemore v. Oklahoma, a case originating in Pittsburg County, applying a U.S. Supreme Court decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma to the Choctaw Nation.
1. What is the Sizemore decision? 
It is a ruling from Oklahoma’s highest criminal appeals court that the Choctaw Nation’s 1866 reservation boundaries were never changed, therefore land within those boundaries constitutes a reservation and is Indian Country. Therefore, Indians who commit crimes on the reservation must be tried in either federal court or Choctaw Nation court and not state court. Non-Indians who commit certain crimes against Indians on the reservation may also be tried in federal court or in Choctaw Nation ....

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