Legal Opinion
Means v. Navajo Nation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 23, 2005No. 01-17489PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge.
This case concerns whether an Indian tribe can exercise criminal jurisdiction over a person who is not a member of the tribe, but who is an enrolled member of another Indian tribe.
Facts
This is an appeal from a denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner, Russell Means, a member of the Oglala-Sioux Indian Tribe, seeks to prevent the Navajo Nation from criminally prosecuting him in Navajo tribal court for an incident that occurred on the Navajo Reservation.
In December 1997, Means allegedly threatened and battered his then father-in-law, who is an…
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3Cited by2 opinions
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