“One of the ways that you might do that would be to compact where the state could exercise jurisdiction over non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians” on tribal reservations, but without impacting tribal sovereignty, Hill said.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals recently rejected state Attorney General Mike Hunter’s claim that the state also had jurisdiction in the case of Shaun Michael Bosse, a decision that Hunter is asking the court to reconsider.
The court overturned the conviction and death sentence of Bosse, who is not Native American but was convicted in the 2010 killings of Katrina Griffin and her two young children, who were Native American, on land within the Chickasaw Nation’s historic reservation.
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Citing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued last year involving the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals found Thursday the state lacked jurisdiction to prosecute a