U.S. Supreme Court,
Native Americans,
Criminal
Sep. 27, 2018
A prisoner in his own land?
A Native American prisoner case up for U.S. Supreme Court review could create jurisdictional shifts in eastern Oklahoma -- or erase a 150-year-old tribal reservation.
Tim Evans
Partner
Holland & Knight LLP
Email: tim.evans@hklaw.com
Tim is in the firm's Native American Law Group.
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In its upcoming term, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Royal v. Murphy (17-1107), a case on appeal from the 10th U.S. Court of Appeals. [10th Circuit ruling attached below.] Respondent Patrick Murphy, a Native American prisoner, is challenging his state court capital murder conviction in a federal habeas corpus action against the state of Oklahoma. (The case recently has been renamed $95
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