Oklahoma's attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Friday to overturn its 2020 ruling affirming tribal sovereignty, arguing the decision led to a 'criminal-justice crisis.'
Newly appointed Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor argues in the petition that the high court's ruling has resulted in thousands of state prisoners challenging decades old convictions, many of which can’t be prosecuted again.The Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, last year that a large part of eastern Oklahoma remains a Native American reservation, meaning Oklahoma prosecutors didn't have the authority to pursue criminal charges against Murphy.
O'Connor's petition requests that the Supreme Court consider narrowing the application of its ruling to allow violent criminals convicted before the ruling to stay in state prisons. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. accused O'Connor and Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt , who is a Cherokee Nation citizen, of pursuing an "anti-Indian political agenda."
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