United States Ninth Circuit

An Indian tribe may exercise inherent sovereign judicial power in criminal cases against nonmember Indians for crimes committed on the tribe's reservation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/10/2002
• Decided 08/23/2005
• Published 08/23/2005

Judges

• Before KLEINFELD, RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and QUACKENBUSH, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Trebon, Trebon & Fine, P.C., Flagstaff, AZ, for the appellant., Thomas L. Sansonetti (briefed), Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Env. & Nat. Resources Division, Washington, DC, for the intervenor., Jon Metropoulos (briefed), Gough, Shanahan, Johnson & Waterman, Helena, MT, for amicus curiae Thomas Lee Morris and Elizabeth S. Morris.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donovan D. Brown, Sr., Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Navajo Nation Office of the Attorney General, Window Rock, AZ, for the appellees.