Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Lee Weaselhead, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 4, 1998No. 97-4397PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.. Robert Lee Weaselhead, Jr. appeals from an order by the district court denying his amended motion to dismiss the superseding indictment returned against him. He contends that Count III of the indictment offends the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment. We reverse.
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Weaselhead is an adult Indian male and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Indian Tribe of Montana. Although he now lives in Nebraska, he is not a member of the Winnebago Tribe domiciled in that state. In the early months of 1997, Weaselhead, then nineteen years old, entered into a sexual…
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