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Polar Plunge held for Special Olympics

The annual Polar Plunge to benefit Special Olympics was Saturday morning at Choctaw RV Park with Scott Corbin emceeing the event. “If you don’t know by now, a Polar Plunge is a fundraising challenge made to an individual or group challenging them to dive into a cold body of water in order to raise money for Special Olympics,” Corbin said. ....

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Tribal officials explain Choctaw judicial system


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DERRICK JAMES | Staff photoThe Choctaw Nation is currently preparing recommendations and funding requests for the addition of both full and part-time judges to ensure a timely and efficient judicial process as cases increase and investigating federal funding opportunities to expand court locations within the reservation.
DERRICK JAMES | Staff photoChoctaw Nation Prosecutor Kara Bacon said there is a plan in place to hire more attorneys as caseloads rise.
DERRICK JAMES | Staff photoChoctaw Nation Public Safety Executive Director John Hobbs said the current goal is to have at least six tribal officers in each of the 10 and a-half counties within the tribe’s boundaries. ....

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Oklahoma Appeals Court: Choctaw, Seminole Nations Included In Tribal Jurisdiction Ruling


Oklahoma Appeals Court: Choctaw, Seminole Nations Included In Tribal Jurisdiction Ruling
The Oklahoma court of criminal appeals said all five tribes in eastern Oklahoma are recognized as sovereign reservation land and now included in the Supreme Court’s ruling tribal jurisdiction.
The appeals court ruled on cases involving the Cherokee and Chickasaw Nations earlier this month. This new decision includes the Choctaw and Seminole Nations, totaling almost 40 counties.
We re definitely confident we re ready to handle the expanded jurisdiction, said Cory Ortega, Assistant Tribal Prosecutor. 
Ortega said that the nation s court staff will make criminals face justice.
We don t intend on releasing criminals. We don t intend on assisting folks that have committed violent crimes and would be getting out of jail. Our job as a prosecutor is to protect the community and that s our goal and we re ready to do it, Ortega said.  ....

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Oklahoma court tosses 5 more first-degree murder convictions


Oklahoma court tosses 5 more first-degree murder convictions
SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press
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In this undated photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections is Devin Warren Sizemore. Oklahoma s 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 murder conviction of Sizemore, 26, a Choctaw Nation citizen convicted in the drowning death of his 21-month-old daughter near Krebs in 2016. (Oklahoma State Department of Corrections via AP)AP
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Oklahoma’s highest criminal appeals court tossed out five more first-degree murder convictions on Thursday based on a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision about criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country. ....

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