Legal Opinion
State v. Sebastian
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided September 2, 1997No. SC 15434PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
PALMER, J.
The dispositive issue raised by this appeal is whether the state of Connecticut has criminal jurisdiction over a defendant who is a member of an Indian tribe that has not been acknowledged by the federal government but whose application for acknowledgment is pending with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).2 The defendant, Mark R. Sebastian, a member of the Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Tribe,3 was *118charged with breach of the peace in violation of General Statutes § 53a-181,4 for conduct stemming from an incident on tribal property in the town of North Stonington. After the…
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- United States v. WheelerSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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