Legal Opinion
Yellowbear v. Wyoming Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 21, 2008No. 06-8064PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.
Andrew John Yellowbear, Jr., appeals the district court’s denial of his habeas corpus petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.
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On July 2, 2004, Andrew John Yellow-bear, Jr., an enrolled member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, was arrested and charged in state court with first-degree murder in Riverton, Wyoming. Prior to trial, Mr. Yellowbear filed a pro se petition in federal district court seeking a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Mr. Yellowbear challenged the state court’s jurisdiction, asserting that River-ton,…
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