Legal Opinion
State of Arizona Ex Rel. Edgar Merrill, Sheriff of Apache County v. Wayne Turtle
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 26, 1969No. 22779_1PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MADDEN, Judge:
Appellee, a Cheyenne Indian who resides with his Navajo Indian wife on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, is sought by the State of Oklahoma for trial on a charge of second degree forgery. Oklahoma apparently first applied to the Navajo Tribal Council for appellee’s extradition. Appellee was thereafter brought before the Navajo Tribal Court, but following a hearing, that court ordered him released, apparently on the ground that Navajo tribal law provided for extradition only to the three neighboring states of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
After the Navajo Tribal Court declined to…
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