Legal Opinion
United States v. LaBuff
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 1, 2011No. 10-30274PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAEZ, Circuit Judge:
The Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153, provides federal criminal jurisdiction for certain crimes committed by Indians in Indian country. 1 We previously have noted that determining who is an Indian under § 1153 is not easy, as the statute does not define the term “Indian.” United States v. Maggi, 598 F.3d 1073, 1075 (9th Cir.2010) (citing Felix S. Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law at 24 (Rennard Strickland et al. ed., 1982)). Our circuit, however, has developed a specific framework for determining whether a person can be prosecuted by the federal government…
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