Legal Opinion
State v. St. Francis
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided April 14, 1989No. 84-550PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDooley, J.
This is an interlocutory appeal by defendants from a pretrial ruling of the trial court. Defendants had moved to dismiss the various criminal charges filed against them for lack of subject matter jurisdiction in the district court. The trial court ruled that defendants bore the burden of proving that they are Indians and that the alleged offenses occurred in “Indian country,” as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 1151 (1982). Defendants appeal from these rulings. We affirm.
Defendants also challenge the refusal of the trial judge to recuse himself by reason of his property ownership within the geographic…
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