Legal Opinion
United States of America v. Melford Ashley, Sr.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 11, 2001No. 00-2189PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Melford Ashley, Sr. appeals from his conviction of assault resulting in serious bodily injury, 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(6) (1994). Ashley is an Indian, as was his victim, and the crime was committed in Indian country. Jurisdiction was predicated on the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153 (1994), and Ashley entered a conditional guilty plea reserving his right to contest jurisdiction. Ashley argues that our earlier decisions in United States v. Osborne, 164 F.3d 434 (8th Cir.1999), and United States v. Allard, 164 F.3d 1146 (8th Cir. 1999), require the conclusion that…
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