Court Opinion

ID: 9464064
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:24:33.720056+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:26.838558
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LAY, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. Judge Heaney has stated a carefully reasoned view in his dissent in United States v. Kills Plenty, 466 F.2d 240 (8th Cir. 1972), demonstrating the applicability of the double jeopardy defense in the present case. As Judge Heaney observed in Kills Plenty:
To reach a contrary result is to ignore the realities and casts grave doubts as to the legitimacy and integrity of the decisions of Indian Tribal Courts which the federal government itself closely supervises. The least we can do is to respect and give full effect to the verdicts of those courts in criminal cases.
466 F.2d at 248.
To sustain the conviction in the present case for the same offense for which the defendant was convicted and punished in tribal court is a travesty of justice.