United States v. Francis Floyd Ant

TANG, Circuit Judge:

In his federal manslaughter prosecution, Francis Floyd Ant appeals the district court’s refusal to suppress a guilty plea made earlier in tribal court. Both the tribal and federal cases arise out of the same alleged incident. Ant claims that the plea should be suppressed because he did not have an attorney in tribal court and because the plea was not voluntary. In denying Ant’s suppression motion, the district court found that the plea was made in concordance both with tribal law and the Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA), 25 U.S.C. § 1302, and ruled that suppressing the plea…