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STATE OF ARIZONA EX REL. MERRILL v. TURTLE

No. 22779.

413 F.2d 683 (1969)

STATE OF ARIZONA ex rel. Edgar MERRILL, Sheriff of Apache County, Appellant, v. Wayne TURTLE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

June 26, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norval C. Jesperson (argued), Asst. Atty.Gen., Darrell F. Smith, Atty.Gen., Phoenix, Ariz., for appellant.

Vard R. Johnson (argued), Theodore R. Mitchell, Window Rock, Ariz., of Dinebeiina Nahiilna Be Agaditahe (DNA), for appellee.

Before MADDEN, Judge of the United States Court of Claims, and MERRILL and BROWNING, Circuit Judges.

MADDEN, Judge:

Appellee, a Cheyenne Indian who resides with his Navajo Indian wife on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, is sought by the State of Oklahoma for trial on a charge of second degree forgery. Oklahoma apparently first applied to the Navajo Tribal Council for appellee's extradition. Appellee was thereafter brought before the Navajo Tribal Court, but following a hearing, that court ordered him released, apparently on the ground that Navajo tribal law provided...

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