States can prosecute non-tribal members who commit crimes on Native American reservations, Supreme Court says

The dispute was initially introduced by attorneys for Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta, who just isn’t a tribal member, and was convicted of kid neglect in a case regarding his stepdaughter, who’s a member of the Japanese Band of Cherokee Indians. The stepdaughter has cerebral palsy and is legally blind. In 2015, Castro-Huerta’s sister-in-law was in the home and famous that the stepdaughter was dehydrated, emaciated, and lined in lice and excrement. When questioned, Castro-Huerta admitted that he had undernourished her. The state of Oklahoma charged each Castro-Huerta and his spouse with baby neglect. Castro-Huerto was sentenced to 35 years in jail.

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