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A man who shot and killed two people in Seminole in 2015 was recently sentenced to serve time in federal prison.

Flickr / Blogtrepreneur The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed that the Cherokee Nations reservation was never disestablished after Judge Gary L. Lumpkin dismissed charges against 47-year-old Travis Hogner, a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. Hogner was charged for possessing a firearm after a felony within the Cherokee Nation. He will not be retried because the statute of limitations expired in his case. Over the last few months, the Seminole Nation, Chickasaw Nation and the C...

Oklahoma court tosses 5 more first-degree murder convictions SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail In this undated photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections is Devin Warren Sizemore. Oklahomas highest criminal appeals court tossed out five more first-degree murder convictions on Thursday, April 1, 2021, based on a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision about criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country. Among the latest rulings were decisions to vacate the first-degree murde...

Choctaw, Seminole reservations recognized by Oklahoma appeals court Chris Casteel, Oklahoman © Todd pendleton tribalrecognition The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Thursday that the Choctaw Nation and Seminole Nation reservations were never disestablished, completing the process of shifting criminal jurisdiction in most of eastern Oklahoma to the federal government and the Five Tribes in cases involving Indians. © Oklahoma Historical Society A map of Indian reserv...