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Tribal Land

Oklahoma’s attorney general asked the state’s top criminal appeals court to rehear a triple murder case after a death-row inmate’s conviction was tossed out based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s finding that the state lacked jurisdiction to prosecute due to Congress’s failure to dissolve the tribal lands the crimes were committed on.

/ March 31, 2021
FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections is Shaun Michael Bosse of Oklahoma. Bosse's murder convictions and death sentence were overturned Thursday, March 11, 2021, by a state court based on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that much of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the conviction and sentence of Bosse, 38, because the crime occurred on land within the Chickasaw Nation's historic reservation and the victims were Native American. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s attorney general asked the state’s top criminal appeals court to rehear a triple murder case after a death-row inmate’s conviction was tossed out based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s finding that the state lacked jurisdiction to prosecute due to Congress’s failure to dissolve the tribal lands the crimes were committed on.

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