United States Supreme Court

In a case in which defendant was convicted of domestic assault in Indian country by a habitual offender, 18 U.S.C. section 117(a), the Ninth Circuit's reversal of conviction, on grounds that defendant's tribal-court convictions could not be used as predicate convictions within section 117(a)'s compass because they would have violated the Sixth Amendment had they been rendered in state or federal court, is reversed where because defendant's tribal-court convictions occurred in proceedings that complied with the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 (ICRA) and were therefore valid when entered, use of those convictions as predicate offenses in a section 117(a) prosecution does not violate the Constitution.

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• Published 2016/06/13

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• GINSBURG

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• United States Supreme Court

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