United States v. Lara

United States v. Lara, 541 U.S. 193 (2004) was a case where the United States Supreme Court held that an American Indian could be prosecuted by both an Indian tribe and the United States government without implicating the Double Jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment.

Background

Billy Jo Lara was a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians who in 2001 lived with his wife on the Spirit Lake Reservation.^[1] His wife was a member of the Spirit Lake Tribe^{[fn 1]}

Footnotes

↑ The tribe was a Sisseton Wahpeton band of the Dakota people.

References

↑ Robert A. Williams, Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, And the Legal History of Racism in America 153 (2005).

[2] The tribe was a Sisseton Wahpeton band of the Dakota people.

[1] Robert A. Williams, Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, And the Legal History of Racism in America 153 (2005).

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United States v. Lara

Background

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