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== Background ==
== 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.<ref>Robert A. Williams, Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, And the Legal History of Racism in America 153 (2005).</ref>  His wife was a member of the Spirit Lake Tribe{{#tag:ref|The tribe was a Sisseton Wahpeton band of the [[Sioux|Dakota]] people.|group=fn}}
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=== Facts of the case ===
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.<ref name=Williams153>{{cite book |last=Williams |first=Robert A. |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, And the Legal History of Racism in America |origdate= |origyear=2005 |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year= |month= |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |location= |language= |isbn=9781452907567 |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=153 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= }}</ref>  His wife was a member of the Spirit Lake Tribe.{{#tag:ref|The tribe was a Sisseton Wahpeton band of the [[Sioux|Dakota]] people.|group=fn}} After several incidents of misconduct, Lara was excluded from the reservation.  Lara returned to the reservation on June 13, 2001 and was arrested for public intoxication.<ref name=DND*1>{{cite court |litigants=United States v. Lara |vol=2001 |reporter=WL |opinion=1789403 |pinpoint=*1 |court=D.N.D. |date=Nov. 29, 2001 |url=}}.</ref>  After being transported to the police station, Lara was informed of the exclusion order.  Lara then struck [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]] (BIA) Police Officer Byron Swan.<ref name=Williams153 /><ref name=DND*1 />


== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
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== References ==
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Revision as of 20:45, 12 January 2014

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

Duro case

Facts of the case

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] After several incidents of misconduct, Lara was excluded from the reservation. Lara returned to the reservation on June 13, 2001 and was arrested for public intoxication.[2] After being transported to the police station, Lara was informed of the exclusion order. Lara then struck Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Police Officer Byron Swan.[1][2]

Footnotes

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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Williams, Robert A. [2005]. Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, And the Legal History of Racism in America. University of Minnesota Press, 153. ISBN 9781452907567. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 United States v. Lara,   2001 WL 1789403, *1 (D.N.D. Nov. 29, 2001).